Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature"

Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter

Epic Receptions

Chapter 1 "Epic Worlds"

Ralph Hexter

Chapter 2 "Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents"

Wai Chee Dimock

Chapter 3 "Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision"

Arturo Arias

Chapter 4 "Reception Configurations: The case of European Epic in India"

Brenda Deen Schildgen

Chapter 5 "Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad"

Zina Giannopoulou

Greek Philosophical Receptions

Chapter 6 "Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge"

Jan Szaif<

Chapter 8 "Reading and Commenting on Aristotle's Rhetoric in Arabic"

Uwe Vagelpohl

Drama and Receptions

Chapter 9 "A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn's Medea and the Introduction of the 'Sumerian' to Modern German Literature"

Adam Siegel

Chapter 10 "American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted"

Robert Borgen

Kristen Bergman Waha

Lyric Receptions

Chapter 13 "The Mediterranean Metaphor"

Kevin Batton

Chapter 14 "Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry"   

Michelle Yeh

Politics and Sociology of Reception

Chapter 15 "Meaning, Reception, and the Use of the Classics: Theoretical Considerations in the Chinese Context"

Zhang Longxi

Chapter 16 "The Sociology of Reception"

Gisèle Sapiro

Bibliography

Index