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: the aim of this paper is to analyse the classical reception in Catalonia during Francoist period by means of the analysis of the advertisements in the journal Destino.
Jordi Cortadella
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“Ovid’s Old Age”: Jacek Kaczmarski and the Sung Poetry of Exile
“Ovid’s Old Age” is a sung poem written by the Polish poet and musician Jacek Kaczmarski (1957–2004) which engages with the myth of Ovid’s exile. Kaczmarski’s works were heavily influenced both by classical culture and his experience of political ...
Paweł Borowski, Henry Stead
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Rez. zu Sergio Audano, Classici Lettori di Classici. Da Virgilio a Marguerite Yourcenar
Rezension zu Sergio Audano, Classici Lettori di Classici. Da Virgilio a Marguerite Yourcenar (Foggia 2012) (=Echo 8), 314 S. ISBN: 978-88-6572-080-6, 20,00 €
Eva Werner
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Shedding light on Odysseus’ companions
Seen in the framework of the classical reception, this paper discusses the use of the ancient sources by modern poets highlighting some main aspects of the dialogue between past and present.
Matrona Paleou
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Why Republics Always Fail: Pondering Feofan Prokopovich’s Case for Russian Autocracy
The article considers Feofan Prokopovich's contribution to redefining Russian autocratic ideology. In the first section, it uncovers an implicit polemic with Samuel Pufendorf's assessment of republican and mixed forms of governance.
Boris Maslov
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Petrifyin’: Canonical Counter-Discourse in Two Caribbean Women’s Medusa Poems
This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets.
Phillip Zapkin
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Teaching Classical Chinese Poetry through Reception Studies
This paper discusses the contribution reception studies can make to the pedagogy of Chinese poetry. It introduces the major theoretical concepts of reception studies, and then demonstrates how those concepts can be applied in and incorporated into ...
Yue Zhang
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Using classical reception to develop students’ engagement with classical literature in translation
While observing A-level students at my PP2 school, I noticed that their responses to classical texts largely consisted of the identification of stylistic tropes. The students could identify a text's stylistic features but they struggled to articulate and
Shane Forde
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Relata refero. Perception of the Ancient Greek Past in the Contemporary Education
From the end of the 18th century, along with the modern educational system, the reception of the ancient Greek culture arrived to Serbia. This image of the classical past was heavily influenced by the wider social and political circumstances of the time.
Vladimir V. Mihajlović
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This article examines the public commemorations of the battle of Thermopylae held by the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the wider context of fascist appropriations of classical antiquity.
Eleftheria Ioannidou
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