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The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Editat de Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Leire Olabarria
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 sep 2024
Up until now the domain of literary critics, counterfactual fiction and uchronic narratives are here analysed by ancient historians and classicists, shedding important new light on how cultures of the ancient world are perceived now and to what extent our experience and perception of the past is used to explore alternate presents and futures. Alternate history entices the imagination of the public by suggesting hypothetical scenarios that never occurred, characterised by one scholar as a latent tension between artificiality and authenticity. This interest has resulted in a growing number of publications that gauge the impact of what-if narratives, and this one is the first to give ancient historians the stage. Focusing in turn on history, politics, the arts and under-represented voices, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary fiction from Pauline Hopkins and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and Catherynne M. Valente. Chapters look into the question of chance vs determinism in the unfolding of historical events; the role individuals play in shaping a society or occasion; and the way art and literature symbolise important messages in counterfactual histories. They also show how uchronic narratives can take advantage of modern literary techniques to reveal new and relevant aspects of the past, including ensuring that marginalised and suppressed individuals in the ancient world, from women to slaves to minorities, can now take centre stage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350281622
ISBN-10: 135028162X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Analyses to what extent counterfactual narratives of the past reflect and explore modern concerns ranging from imperialism and colonialism to religious extremism and racism.

Notă biografică

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Granada, Spain.Leire Olabarria is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Cuprins

Foreword. On the Usefulness of What Didn't Happen Will Tattersdill (University of Glasgow)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (University of Granada) and Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham) Section 1. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. History between Chance and Determinism 1.1 'Delenda Est': Counterfactual and Narratological Obligations in Poul Anderson's Gerundive History, by Genevieve Liveley (University of Bristol)1.2 Counter-Apostate, Counter-Christianity in John Christopher's Fireball, by Ryan C. Fowler (Franklin & Marshall College)1.3 'All that is Solid Melts into Air': Destabilizing history in Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna, by Sarah Annes Brown (Anglia Ruskin University) 1.4 What if Aristotle Had Known (Better)? Lyon Sprague de Camp and the Counterfactual Exploration of Civilization and Progress, by F. Javier Campos-Daroca (University of Almería) Section 2. Narratives of Power in Uchronias: between 'Big Men' and Underrepresented Voices 2.1 The Triumph of Greek Civilization? Projecting Ancient Greece into an Alternate Future, by Anastasia Bakogianni (Massey University)2.2 Emperor Julian's American Dream, by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (University of Granada) and Elia Otranto (University of Granada)2.3 Alternat(iv)e Fiction in T. S. Chaudhry's The Queen of Sparta: Unrepresented Voices and Counterfactuality, by Lynn S. Fotheringham (University of Nottingham) Section 3. Art, Culture, and the Poetics of Counterfactuals 3.1 'A Picture that Can Only Ever Come in Parts': Alternate Histories of the Arts in Catherynne M. Valente's Radiance, by Benjamin E. Stevens (Howard University)3.2 How Place Creates Time: Imagined Architecture as an Expression of Identity in Ramona Wheeler's Three Princes, by Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham)3.3 Antiquity Interrupted: Partial Receptions as Counterfactuals, by Jesse Weiner (Hamilton College) NotesBibliographyIndex