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Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended for both scholars and other readers of fantasy, this volume explores many of the most significant examples of the modern genre-including the works of H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series, and more-in relation to important ancient texts such as Aeschylus' Oresteia, Aristotle's Poetics, Virgil's Aeneid, and Apuleius' The Golden Ass. These varied studies raise fascinating questions about genre, literary and artistic histories, and the suspension of disbelief required not only of readers of fantasy but also of students of antiquity. Ranging from harpies to hobbits, from Cyclopes to Cthulhu, and all manner of monster and myth in-between, this comparative study of Classics and fantasy reveals deep similarities between ancient and modern ways of imagining the world. Although antiquity and the present day differ in many ways, at its base, ancient literature resonates deeply with modern fantasy's image of worlds in flux and bodies in motion.
Contents
Introduction: Fantasies of Antiquity
Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound
Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University
PART I: Classical Apparitions in (Pre-)Modern Fantasy
1. Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy
Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College
2. Theorizing Fantasy: Enchantment, Parody, and the Classical Tradition...58
Cecilie Flugt, Danish Academy in Rome
3. The Mirror Crack'd: Fractured Classicisms in the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorian Illustration....77
Genevieve S. Gessert, American Academy in Rome
4. Classical Antiquity and the Timeless Horrors of H. P. Lovecraft...... 109
Robinson Peter Krämer, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
PART II: False Medievalism & Other Ancient Fantasies
5. Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit...138
Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Trinity University
6. C. S. Lewis's The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses...171
Jeff Winkle, Calvin College
7. A Time for Fantasy: Retelling Apuleius in in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces......190
Marcus Folch, Columbia University
PART III: Children and (Other) Ancient Monsters
8. The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature ...224
Sarah Annes Brown, Anglia Ruskin University
9. Orestes & the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter SeriesL....249
Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound
10. Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy....281
Antonia Syson, Purdue University
11. Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Mythology and Disney/Pixar's Brave...303
Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College
PART IV: (Post)Modern Fantasies of Antiquity
12. Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The Brainsex Paintings" (Plainwater)....329
Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Pomona College
13. Aeneas' American New World in Jo Graham's Black Ships.....354
Jennifer A. Rea, University of Florida
14. Genre, Mimesis, and Virgilian Intertext in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire..........378
Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, University of Texas-Austin
Works Cited.... 403
