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This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his adaptations and translations explored themes of language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war.
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This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his adaptations and translations explored themes of language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war.
This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his adaptations and translations explored themes of language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Cover -- Tony...
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This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his adaptations and translations explored themes of language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Cover -- Tony Harrison and the Classics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Texts by Tony Harrison -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- Education and Early Writing -- Major Publications -- Dramatic Poetry -- Film Poetry -- The 'People's Laureate' -- International Scope and Reputation -- Awards -- Harrison and Reception -- The Volume -- Works Cited -- 2: Tony Harrison as Founder of Classical Reception Studies -- Introduction -- Frontier Classicism -- Postcolonial Classical Reception -- Classical Performance Reception -- Feminism and Classical Reception -- Classical Reception and Social Class -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 3: Tony Harrison and Rome -- Latin at School: The School of Eloquence -- Latin Classic: Virgilian Traces -- Latin Travels: The Loiners -- Latin Invective: Martial -- Roman Empire: Physical Traces -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4: Ruins and Fragments: The Impact of Material Culture on the Works of Tony Harrison -- Introduction -- The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus -- Harrison's Oresteia -- Ichneutai and Trackers -- The Delphi Trackers -- The Gaze of the Gorgon -- Prometheus -- Ruins, Suffering, and Memory -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 5: Recusatio from Both Directions: Tony Harrison's Gazes -- Introduction -- Harrison's Life-longLearning: Modes, Places, People -- Harrison's Radical Philology -- Radical Philology and the Stage -- Radical Philology and Film -- Works Cited -- 6: The Originality and Influence of Tony Harrison's The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus -- Introduction -- Works Cited -- 7: Harrison's Hecubas: Translating and Performing International Activism -- Introduction -- Tony Harrison, Translator -- Touring Translation -- Harrison's Hecubas -- Gilbert Murray and Sybil Thorndike -- Fram as a Commentary on Hecuba -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.