Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy /
[Book]
edited by Brett M. Rogers and Benjamin Eldon Stevens.
New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
xii, 233 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm.
Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface ; Introduction: Displacing Antiquity in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part I: Displacing Points of Origin. 1. More 'T, ' Vicar? Revisiting Models and Methodologies for Classical Receptions in Science Fiction (Tony Keen) ; 2. Saxa loquuntur?: Archaeological Fantasies in Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva (Jesse Weiner) ; 3. Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer's Iliad (Claire Kenward) ; 4. Monuments and Tradition in Jack McDevitt's The Engines of God (Laura Zientek) ; Part II: Displaced in Space. 5. Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ortwin Knorr) ; 6. Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Suzanne Lye) ; 7. 'The nearest technically impossible thing': Classical Antiquity in the Novels of Helen Oyeyemi (Benjamin Eldon Stevens) ; Part III: Displaced in Time. 8. Dynamic Tensions: The Figure(s) of Atlas in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stephen B. Moses and Brett M. Rogers) ; 9. Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost (Frances Foster) ; 10. Finding Cassandra in Science Fiction: The Seer of Agamemnon and the Time-Traveling Protector of Continuum (Jennifer Ranck) ; Part IV: Displacing Genre. 11. Classical Reception and the Half-Elf Cleric (C. W. Marshall) ; 12. The Gods Problem in Gene Wolfe's Soldier of the Mist (Vincent Tomasso) ; 13. The Divine Emperor in Virgil's Aeneid and the Warhammer 40K Universe (Alexander McAuley) ;Part V: Epilogue: Finding a Place in Displacement. 14. Just Your Averange Tuesday-Morning Minotaur (Catherynne M. Valente).