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Title:

Classics and national cultures / edited by Susan A. Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Civilization--History.
Nationalism.
Civilization, Classical.

Other Authors:

Stephens, Susan A.
Vasunia, Phiroze, 1966-

Notes:

Series statement from jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-359) and index.

Contents:

Alexander Sikandar / Phiroze Vasunia. Marooned Mandarins : Freud, classical education, and the Jews of Vienna / Richard H. Armstrong -- Classical culture for a classical country : scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco's Plato in Italy / Giovanna Ceserani -- Classical education and the early American democratic style / Joy Connolly -- Mimicry and classical allusion in V.S. Naipaul's The mimic men / Emily Greenwood -- Editing the nation : classical scholarship in Greece, c.1930 / Constanze Güthenke -- Eastern European nations, Western culture, and the classical tradition / Asen Kirin -- The cosmic race and a heap of broken images : Mexico's classical past and the modern Creole imagination / Andrew Laird -- Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek literature / Vassilis Lambropoulos -- How to build a national epic : Digenes Akrites and the Song of Roland / Fernanda Moore -- Heraclitus of the Highveld : the universalism (ancient and modern) of T.J. Haarhoff / Grant Parker -- Auerbach, Homer, and the Jews / James I. Porter -- Contestatory classics in 1920s China / Haun Saussy -- The new Alexandrian library / Susan A. Stephens -- Translatio and difference : Western classics in modern Japan / Yasunari Takada -- Alexander Sikandar / Phiroze Vasunia.

Series:

[Classical presences]

ISBN:

0199212988 (hbk.)
9780199212989 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)471822337

LCCN:

2010922492

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)