Phillip Zapkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1098926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phillip Zapkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phillip |
| FAMILY NAME | Zapkin |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPKIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8983-2222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Antipodean Theseus
This essay examines six depictions of the 1898 suicide of New Zealand businessman and politician William Larnach: four historical narratives and two dramatic/fictional depictions. Drawing on the insights of postmodern historiographers like Hayden White, I argue that these tellings reflect an increasing influence of the Hippolytus myth, a culturally authorized narrative rooted in traditional British colonial education structures and Antipodean rec…
Die Politik von Caligari
Contemporary politics is filled with anxiety about the survival of democracy—particularly within a framework pitting liberal representative democracy against authoritarianism. In times of anxiety about authoritarianism, Western artists repeatedly return to a masterpiece of relatively early cinema: Robert Weine’s silent film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This essay examines three twenty-first century adaptations: Da…
Petrifyin’
This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets. Essentially, canonical counter-discourse involves authors rewriting works or giving voice to peripheral/silenced characters from the literary canon to challenge inequalities upheld by power structures such as imperialism and patriarchy. McCallum’s and Smartt’s poems represent Medusa to …
The Story of Myth by Sarah Iles Johnston
Reviewed by: The Story of Myth by Sarah Iles Johnston Phillip Zapkin Sarah Iles Johnston. The Story of Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 374. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-674-18507-4. Scholars of myth have long sought a comprehensive system for determining what myths "really mean." This has involved linking myths to religious rituals, [End Page 114] reducing them to core moral lessons, mining them f…
Not All Dead White Men
Reviewed by: Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg Phillip Zapkin Donna Zuckerberg. Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 270. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97555-2. There is a crisis with Classics. That’s the position of an emerging generation of scholars concerned with how Classics are (mis)used …
Beckett Spams Counter-Strike
Ce qui suit décrit une « intervention » dans le jeu Counter-Strike : Global Offensive, intitulée Beckett Spams Counter-Strike - par « intervention », nous entendons une forme de performance artistique et d’action politique qui entre et occupe, ou « intervient » dans un environnement, une institution déjà existante, un espace ordonné. La description est interrompue ou fragmentée par des remarques « signées » des « joueurs » – les acteurs, les « ga…
Dionysus Resurrected
Reviewed by: Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World by Erika Fischer-Lichte Phillip Zapkin DIONYSUS RESURRECTED: PERFORMANCES OF EURIPIDES’ THE BACCHAE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD. By Erika Fischer-Lichte. Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition series. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; pp. 256. Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Dionysus Resurrected is a thoroughly researched examin…
The Politics of Adaptation
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The Politics of Adaptation
Beckett Spams Counter-Strike
Ce qui suit décrit une « intervention » dans le jeu Counter-Strike : Global Offensive, intitulée Beckett Spams Counter-Strike - par « intervention », nous entendons une forme de performance artistique et d’action politique qui entre et occupe, ou « intervient » dans un environnement, une institution déjà existante, un espace ordonné. La description est interrompue ou fragmentée par des remarques « signées » des « joueurs » – les acteurs, les « ga…
Dionysus Resurrected
Reviewed by: Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World by Erika Fischer-Lichte Phillip Zapkin DIONYSUS RESURRECTED: PERFORMANCES OF EURIPIDES’ THE BACCHAE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD. By Erika Fischer-Lichte. Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition series. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; pp. 256. Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Dionysus Resurrected is a thoroughly researched examin…
The Story of Myth by Sarah Iles Johnston
Reviewed by: The Story of Myth by Sarah Iles Johnston Phillip Zapkin Sarah Iles Johnston. The Story of Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 374. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-674-18507-4. Scholars of myth have long sought a comprehensive system for determining what myths "really mean." This has involved linking myths to religious rituals, [End Page 114] reducing them to core moral lessons, mining them f…
Not All Dead White Men
Reviewed by: Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg Phillip Zapkin Donna Zuckerberg. Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 270. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97555-2. There is a crisis with Classics. That’s the position of an emerging generation of scholars concerned with how Classics are (mis)used …
Petrifyin’
This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets. Essentially, canonical counter-discourse involves authors rewriting works or giving voice to peripheral/silenced characters from the literary canon to challenge inequalities upheld by power structures such as imperialism and patriarchy. McCallum’s and Smartt’s poems represent Medusa to …
Die Politik von Caligari
Contemporary politics is filled with anxiety about the survival of democracy—particularly within a framework pitting liberal representative democracy against authoritarianism. In times of anxiety about authoritarianism, Western artists repeatedly return to a masterpiece of relatively early cinema: Robert Weine’s silent film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This essay examines three twenty-first century adaptations: Da…
Antipodean Theseus
This essay examines six depictions of the 1898 suicide of New Zealand businessman and politician William Larnach: four historical narratives and two dramatic/fictional depictions. Drawing on the insights of postmodern historiographers like Hayden White, I argue that these tellings reflect an increasing influence of the Hippolytus myth, a culturally authorized narrative rooted in traditional British colonial education structures and Antipodean rec…
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