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Achilles beyond Fury
The fury of Achilles serves as the central axis around which the ten insightful essays of this volume are organized. The critical approaches exhibit a commendable diversity, addressing themes related to the multifaceted nature of the Iliadic hero. This investigation is both relevant and refreshing, drawing on the expertise of researchers from different academic domains. The contributions collectively focus on the striking character of the wrathful warrior of the Iliad, uncovering new perspectives, concerning potential parallels with the biblical Samson, the destructive consequences of his actions, crucial aspects about his dead, and his lasting influence in the iconography of Roman Imperial Age, as well in contemporary cinema.
A Special Model of Classical Reception
The contributions to this volume cover a large diachronic, geographical, and cultural space. Some of the texts go back to antiquity, using the Odyssey as the most significant source for several reflections, both ancient and contemporary, and therefore the safest link between old and contemporary versions. In addition, in the modern and contemporary summaries and tales analysed here, predominance is given to epics (Homer and other famous stories known from the epic cycle) as a source, exemplified by texts belonging to various literary works from across the globe, focused on the influence that major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
Reception Studies
The texts, images and events of the ancient world have been used both as sources of authority and exploitation in politics, culture and society and as icons of resistance and contest. How classical culture is transplanted into new contexts, how texts are translated and performed and how Greek and Roman values are perceived and used continues to be a force in current debates. The main concepts and explanatory frameworks used in the field are introduced through chapters on reception within antiquity and case studies of more recent receptions from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and the USA. The book will be of use to all those interested in the relationship between the arts, culture and society as well as to students and teachers of classical subjects and of literature, drama, film and comparative cultural studies.
The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry
This book includes 21 chapters dedicated to the study of contemporary, Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. It integrates the international bibliography on reception studies in an Ibero-American context. However, the comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that, despite the differences, unites them. Travels, routes, and adventures, taken in a linear or symbolic sense, are the common trace of all contributions. The variety of tastes, the greater or smaller closeness to the ancient models, and the authors’ preferences contribute to an overall view of the classical imprint on contemporary poetry as a specific area of literature.
Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal
Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded through a dialogue with coeval European events. As concerns Portugal, this results principally in political and feminist approaches to the texts. Since the importation of the Sophoclean model is often indirect, the volume includes comparisons with intermediate sources, namely French (Cocteau, Anouilh) and Spanish (María Zambrano), which were extremely influential on the many and diversified versions written in Portugal during this period.
Digital Flux, Linguistic Justice and Minoritized Languages
The concept of linguistic justice, as applied to minoritized languages, sheds light upon the way in which minoritized communities conduct their lives in less than optimal environments. Precisely for that reason, the theoretical framework for the study of minoritized languages has been constructed from different areas of knowledge, creating a situation in which "language" is just one of the elements. This collection of essays proposes to recover the centrality of bilingualism, biculturalism and bidialectalism in the understanding of the different social, cultural and political processes of historical and contemporary language justice. It provides relevant theoretical and practical frameworks on the latest studies in linguistic justice as applied to minoritized languages and linguistic varieties such as Korean in Los Angeles, USA, Arabic in Spain, or Náhuat in Central America. Analyzing the acquisition, maintenance and attrition of these languages both in digital and physical environments, the volume contributes to expanding our knowledge of the sociolinguistic, educational, political and social realities that occur in minoritized languages.
O Livro do Tempo: Escritas e reescritas
Estes dois volumes reúnem um conjunto de estudos sobre teatro grego e latino (I) e sua recepção (II). Da Antiguidade são considerados, além da análise de diversos textos concretos, aspectos relacionados com a evolução dos géneros trágico e cómico, com os seus agentes e com a função cívica que deles se espera. Os estudos de recepção (II) abrangem colaboradores de um âmbito geográfico alargado e incluem inúmeros estudos de caso, sobretudo no âmbito da literatura e do teatro do mundo latino e ibero-americano. These two volumes collect several studies about Greek and Latin theatre (I) and its reception (II). From Antiquity, beside the analysis of specific texts, are considered aspects related with the evolution of the tragic and comic genres, their agents and their civic function. The reception studies (II) put together collaborators from a large geography and include a big number of case studies, mainly considering literature and theatre from the latin and iberoamerican world.
Medeia, Safo e Antígona
Este volume reúne, em tradução portuguesa, três peças de tema clássico da autoria de Andrés Pociña: Medeia em Camariñas, Atardecer em Mitilene, Antígona frente aos Juízes. Cada uma destas reescritas, feita por um académico da Universidade de Granada, vem acompanhada de um breve estudo introdutório, que tem por objetivo salientar o diálogo estabelecido entre as novas versões e as suas referências clássicas.
TRES OBRAS TEATRAIS
Edítanse por fin en galego, a lingua na que foron escritas, as tres primeiras obras teatrais de Andrés Pociña, todas elas xa publicadas en español, italiano, e portugués. As tres foron representadas en España, Italia e Portugal, mais ningunha probou fortuna deica agora en terras galegas. Medea en Camariñas, estreada en 2005, vai camiño das cen representacións, en cinco montaxes distintos. Consiste no monólogo dunha Medea xa vella, que explica por si mesma os feitos da súa existencia ás mulleres de Camariñas que están lavando nun daqueles lavadoiros de antes. Unha tardiña en Mitilene, que principia o seu andar escénico co título Atardecer en Mitilene en 2010, lévanos ás con...
Antígona: a eterna sedução da filha de Édipo
Este volume reúne um conjunto de estudos que têm por motivo o mito de Antígona, a sua expressão clássica e a sua recepção moderna e contemporânea, em diferentes contextos culturais (Portugal, Brasil, Espanha, França e Itália). This volume includes several texts about the myth of Antigone, its classical expression and modern and contemporary reception, in different cultural contexts (Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France and Italy). This volume includes several texts about the myth of Antigone, its classical expression and modern and contemporary reception, in different cultural contexts (Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France and Italy).
