... of the author, through its involvement in the generation of narrative. This often causes authors to protest too much about the distinction between themselves and these despised individuals. In this way early modern metadrama contains discourses of production and reception which mirror authors’ perceptions...

... Theodor Cronin Michael Garnett Edward Marcus Laura Stepniak Kravchinski S M Grossman Leonid Rhythm Brodsky Nikolai Counterpoint Turgenev Ivan Sergueevitch Pushkin Alexander Editorial praxis Translation strategies Reception of foreign literatures Cross-cultural mediation Montage...

...Chapter 1 ("Thinking with the Heart: Sirk and Pictorial Reception) analyses some of the still moments that have been built into many of this director's most arresting cinematic tableaux in relation to three different models of pictorial reception (two contributed by Michael Fried, one...

...The chapter opens with the author’s earliest encounter with Sa’di’s poetry developing into an academic project over time. The main topics include the city of Shiraz in Sa’di’s time, his decades of travel, and the diversity of his poetic legacy. The reception of his work in his own time, as well...

... as ‘crystal-film’ and L’Enfer as paranoid narrative, this chapter examines how and to what extent Chabrol challenges the status of the image and the reception process. crystal image Dällenbach Lucien Demoiselle d’honneur La 2004 doubles entrapment incipits Magritte René mirrors mise...

...Although many historical epics of the 1950s and 1960s are now regarded as cinema classics, their critical reception on their original release was quite different. These films were often seen as highly problematic cinematic exercises, with films such as Ben Hur being praised...

... Erving Lamont Peter Picts Etain character in Centurion narrator narration Aurelius Marcus Germania Hitler Adolf Inglourious Basterds 2009 film Nazi National Socialism Tarantino Quentin King Arthur 2004 film Quintus Dias character in Centurion Hollywood reception epic film historical film...

... nationalism Nottingham Marion Maid Marion Robin Hood Prince of Thieves 1991 film Crusades The 1935 film De Mille Cecil B Harty Kevin J Richards Jeffrey Tolkien J R R national identity epic film genre historical epic medieval film classical reception fantasy Before embarking on a discussion...

... Margot Rabaté Jean Michel Saint Amour Paul K Bersani Leo Derrida Jacques reader term author centrism Burke Seán readers and reception authorship anti-authorialism theories of reading Ulysses is infamously unread. Yet this reputation, every reference to it, and each time...

... Roland metacriticism reception of theory Jacques Derrida poststructuralism deconstruction authority From a discipline spanning millennia, to one just a century old: comparisons between the weight and heft of Homeric scholarship and Joyce criticism would be overdoing it a bit, though might feel...

...Here we examine closely issues of production and reception of Greek migration films across national borders in order to further discuss questions of cultural identity. The chapter opens with Constantinos Giannaris’s Hostage/Omiros (2005), its hostile reception...

...Literary tropes of Italian political (i.e. Risorgimento) reception of opera are read through Camillo Boito’s short story ‘Senso’ (1880), its single reference to opera (the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer), and its film adaptation by Luchino Visconti (1954, featuring music by Giuseppe Verdi instead...

... national identity Anderson Benedict Buell Lawrence Dilke Charles Wentworth Englishness Harris Kenneth Marc Norton Andrews Slater Joseph Sowder William American Civil War Anglo-American relations posthumous reception If Emerson, in 1867, was thinking of public speech as the equivalent of military...

... and commemoration Theatrical depiction of Burns Burns’s worldwide reception Burns’s worldwide performance impact This collection of critical essays considers the idea of ‘performing’ Robert Burns (1759–1796). In his lifetime Scotland’s national poet wrote or edited more songs than poems, and yet we seldom ever...

... resistant anger Leucothoe rape myths pederasty Feminist Epistemology Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Ancient Women Feminist Philosophy Reception Studies Women and gender studies Queer studies Critical race theory Philology As suggested by the title Believing Ancient Women...

... character in Spartacus 2010–14 Gaia character in Rome 2005–7 Naevia character in Spartacus 2010–14 Caesar Julius Caesar Kore character in Spartacus 2010–14 pregnancy Cinderella motif intersectionality same sex relationships Classical reception, film and television rape slavery epistemologies...

...; and historical reception studies. The book is therefore designed to provide a narrative history spine while simultaneously introducing readers to different approaches to the study and research of film history. Concentrating on the plurality of the ‘historical turn’ in film studies, it demonstrates that film...

...This chapter surveys the reception of Cicero’s writings as well as of the figure of Cicero in the juristic literature excerpted in Justinian’s Digest. The analysis consists of three parts. The first traces the engagement on the part of several jurists with legal passages from Cicero’s oeuvre...