The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception)

Murdoch, Brian

Brill（2019/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 412 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004400931
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

This book is a study of the literary reception of the originally Greek love-story of Hero and Leander, examining the nature of the tale and demonstrating its longevity and huge popularity from classical times to the present, in a great variety of different genres. Chapters consider the classical versions (Ovid, Musaios, Martial), medieval and renaissance versions in various European languages, folk and literary ballads (and even a pop song), the lyric, dramatic versions, settings to music, burlesques and travesties in all genres, modern reflections of the story in (experimental) literary forms.

Contents

Preface

1 Hero and Leander: Constants and Questions

2 The Classical World

3 Ovid (often) Moralised: the Middle Ages

4 Heroical Poems: the Renaissance and After

5 Ballads, Folk and Literary

6 Focal Points: Reflections in the Lyric

7 The Challenge of Drama

8 The Waves of Sea and Love: Grillparzer and After

9 Choice Pieces of Drollery: the Burlesques

10 Set to Music: Cantatas, Operas, and Musical Plays

11 Modern Experiments

12 Some Shallow Story of Deep Love?

Bibliography

Index