What is so ‘classical' about Classical Reception? Theories, Methodologies and Future Prospects
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v4i1.3341Keywords:
classical reception, Electra, Cacoyannis, AngelopoulosAbstract
This paper delivered at the University of Rio on 3rd June 2015 seeks to explore different approaches to the most fundamental questions in classical reception studies. What is classical reception? And more particularly what is so ‘classical' about classical reception? It discusses current trends in theory and methodology via an analysis of two cinematic receptions of the ancient story of Electra; one that proclaims its debt to a classical text while the other masks its classical connections.
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