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  • The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies

    The Classics in South America by Mu?oz, Germán Campos;

    Five Case Studies

    Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 6 May 2021
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350170254
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 558 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 4 bw illus
    • 185

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    This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, though often overlooked, role in the self-definition in the New World. Chronicling and theorizing this history through a detailed analysis of five key moments, chosen from the early and late colonial period, the emancipatory era, and the 20th and 21st centuries, it also examines an eclectic selection of both literary and cinematographic works and artefacts such as maps, letters, scientific treatises, songs, monuments, political speeches, and even the drafts of proposals for curricular changes across Latin America.

    The heterogeneous cases analysed in this book reveal cultural anxieties that recur through different periods, fundamentally related to the 'newness' of the continent and the formation of identities imagined as both Western and non-Western - a genealogy of apprehensions that South American intellectuals and political figures have typically experienced when thinking of their own role in world history. In tracing this genealogy, The Classics in South America innovatively reformulates our understanding of well-known episodes in the cultural history of the region, while providing a theoretical and historical resource for further studies of the importance of the Classical tradition across Latin America.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgements
    List of Illustrations

    Introduction: Plus Ultra
    Prospective Classicisms in Latin America
    The Class of the Classics
    Greek and Latin America? A Description of this Project
    Note on the Translations

    Chapter 1: Avatars
    Preliminaries
    Acosta, the Elder
    The Antarctic Ovid
    The Austral Muse
    Conclusions: Culling, Cultivation, and Culture

    Chapter 2: Chorographers
    Preliminaries
    The Borders of the New World: Pedro Nolasco Mere's Maps of the Walls of Lima
    The Language of the New World: Rodrígo de Valdés's Fundación y Grandeza
    Conclusions

    Chapter 3: Personae
    Preliminaries
    Hypermetric History: José Joaquín de Olmedo's Victoria de Junín
    An Ides of March in September: The 1828 Conspiracy Against Bolívar
    Conclusions: History, Impersonation, Prosopopoeia

    Chapter 4: Mythographers
    Preliminaries
    The Other Asterion
    The Creation of a Carioca Orpheus
    Orpheus in Color
    Confirmations, Rebuttals, and Antitheses
    Conclusions

    Chapter 5 (Coda): Pedagogues
    Preliminaries
    Monuments to the Origin
    Back to Eryce

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