Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition
Series: Classical Presences;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 July 2015
- ISBN 9780198738053
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages382 pages
- Size 222x148x27 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths.
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The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value.
This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.
it is the company's ultimate resistance to the lures of myth that we should admire in A. G. G. Gibson's production, as we await the next scholarly reply.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'It's readable all right, but it's not history': Robert Graves' Claudius Novels and the Impossibility of Historical Fiction
Claudius in the Library
Homer's Daughter: Graves' Vera Historia
Robert Graves as Historical Novelist: Count Belisarius - Genesis, Gender, and Truth
Graves on War and the Late Antique: Count Belisarius and his World
The Golden Ass and the Golden Warrior
'Essentially a moral problem': Robert Graves and the Politics of the Plain Prose Tradition
Robert Graves' The Greek Myths and Matriarchy
Scholarly Mythopoesis: Robert Graves' The Greek Myths
Freedom to Invent: Graves' Iconoclastic Approach to Antiquity
Restoring Narcissus: The Love Poems of Robert Graves
Robert Graves at Troy, Marathon, and the End of Sandy Road: War Poems at a Classical Distance
'Con beffarda irriverenza': Graves' Augustus in Mussolini's Italy
Josef von Sternberg and the Cinematizing of I, Claudius
Broadcasting the Common Asphodel: Robert Graves and the Mass Media
The Anger of Achilles (1964): A Prize-Winning 'Epic for Radio' by Robert Graves
Bibliography
Index
