Justine Mcconnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justine Mcconnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justine |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONNELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean
"Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott developed between the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Caribbean, both before and after its publication. Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Car…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction
Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students, scholars, and other readers of Mary Shelley’s novel, the volume explores classical receptions in some of Frankenstein’s most important scenes, sources, and adaptations. Not limited to literature, the…
The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama
"The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama." Journal of Southern African Studies, 42(1), pp. 171–172
Crossing Borders: Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe
Crossing BordersBernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe Justine McConnell (bio) I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here. -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the turn of the third century CE, Rome was ruled by the emperor Septimius Severus; as a consequence, so too was a large part of Britain. Of Libyan origin, Severus's African accent was cause for remark in antiquity, but his African roots were no impediment to him ri…
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Dionysus in 69 in 2009
The Power of Medea’s Sisterhood
When Greeks Stand you up, Invite Romans
“Aeschylus Got Flow!”
The Darkening of Medea
August Wilson and Greek Drama
Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship
New Worlds, Old Dreams?
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbi…
Postcolonial Sparagmos: Toni Morrison’s Sula and Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
This article argues that the Greek idea of sparagmos (tearing apart) offers an illuminating metaphor to describe creative artists' engagement with antiquity. The violence and fertility innate within sparagmos are particularly appropriate to postcolonial receptions of classical literature, as will be demonstrated by examining Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, and Wole Soyinka's play, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, both published in 1973
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
Conclusion
This closing chapter concludes that anticolonial and postcolonial responses to the Odyssey cannot be homogenized; there is no single ‘postcolonial response’ to Homer, rather a multitude of diverse responses and ‘receptions’. The Odyssey has inspired such a large number of responses throughout history because of the ‘adaptability’of its hero and his adventures. It has been important to many postcolonial writers for these reasons, but in addition, …
Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939
This book explores creative works that respond to the Homeric Odyssey. Considering what the ancient Greek epic has signified for those struggling to emerge from the shadow of Western imperialism, and how it has inspired anticolonial poets, novelists, playwrights, and directors. This study examines twentieth- and twenty first-century works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora, including the Caribbean and the United States. In seeking to…
The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women's Epic Poetry
Jeremy Downes set out to discover “whether or not epics by women existed, and if so, what they were like” (290), and this accessible volume will certainly engage those who are new to the area. Covering a wide range of material from the Sumerian Descent of Inanna (ca. 1900-1600 BCE) right up to the modern day and arguing for the application of the term “epic” to some works not traditionally considered as such, Downes reveals “affinities” between t…
Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood
1. Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson' 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7. Betwee…
Chapter 8: ‘Achieving Presence’ Jatinder Verma and the Cross-Cultural Work of Tara Arts
CHAPTER 8: ‘ACHIEVING PRESENCE’ JATINDER VERMA AND THE CROSS-CULTURAL WORK OF TARA ARTS Get access Justine McConnell Justine McConnell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 53, Issue Supplement_108, June 2010, Pages 143–157, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2010.tb00033.x Published: 24 March 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Crossing Borders: Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe
Crossing BordersBernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe Justine McConnell (bio) I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here. -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the turn of the third century CE, Rome was ruled by the emperor Septimius Severus; as a consequence, so too was a large part of Britain. Of Libyan origin, Severus's African accent was cause for remark in antiquity, but his African roots were no impediment to him ri…
Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood
1. Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson' 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7. Betwee…
Chapter 8: ‘Achieving Presence’ Jatinder Verma and the Cross-Cultural Work of Tara Arts
CHAPTER 8: ‘ACHIEVING PRESENCE’ JATINDER VERMA AND THE CROSS-CULTURAL WORK OF TARA ARTS Get access Justine McConnell Justine McConnell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 53, Issue Supplement_108, June 2010, Pages 143–157, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2010.tb00033.x Published: 24 March 2015
Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood
1. Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson' 2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom 3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s 4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) 5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry 6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley 7. Betwee…
Conclusion
This closing chapter concludes that anticolonial and postcolonial responses to the Odyssey cannot be homogenized; there is no single ‘postcolonial response’ to Homer, rather a multitude of diverse responses and ‘receptions’. The Odyssey has inspired such a large number of responses throughout history because of the ‘adaptability’of its hero and his adventures. It has been important to many postcolonial writers for these reasons, but in addition, …
Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939
This book explores creative works that respond to the Homeric Odyssey. Considering what the ancient Greek epic has signified for those struggling to emerge from the shadow of Western imperialism, and how it has inspired anticolonial poets, novelists, playwrights, and directors. This study examines twentieth- and twenty first-century works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora, including the Caribbean and the United States. In seeking to…
The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women's Epic Poetry
Jeremy Downes set out to discover “whether or not epics by women existed, and if so, what they were like” (290), and this accessible volume will certainly engage those who are new to the area. Covering a wide range of material from the Sumerian Descent of Inanna (ca. 1900-1600 BCE) right up to the modern day and arguing for the application of the term “epic” to some works not traditionally considered as such, Downes reveals “affinities” between t…
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Dionysus in 69 in 2009
The Power of Medea’s Sisterhood
When Greeks Stand you up, Invite Romans
“Aeschylus Got Flow!”
The Darkening of Medea
August Wilson and Greek Drama
Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship
New Worlds, Old Dreams?
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbi…
Postcolonial Sparagmos: Toni Morrison’s Sula and Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
This article argues that the Greek idea of sparagmos (tearing apart) offers an illuminating metaphor to describe creative artists' engagement with antiquity. The violence and fertility innate within sparagmos are particularly appropriate to postcolonial receptions of classical literature, as will be demonstrated by examining Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, and Wole Soyinka's play, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, both published in 1973
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama
"The Place of Greek Tragedy in African Drama." Journal of Southern African Studies, 42(1), pp. 171–172
Crossing Borders: Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe
Crossing BordersBernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe Justine McConnell (bio) I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here. -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the turn of the third century CE, Rome was ruled by the emperor Septimius Severus; as a consequence, so too was a large part of Britain. Of Libyan origin, Severus's African accent was cause for remark in antiquity, but his African roots were no impediment to him ri…
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction
Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students, scholars, and other readers of Mary Shelley’s novel, the volume explores classical receptions in some of Frankenstein’s most important scenes, sources, and adaptations. Not limited to literature, the…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under
"Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on…
Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean
"Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length poem recasting the epics of Homer, Virgil and Dante in St Lucia is best-known in this regard, yet Omeros is only the pinnacle of a lengthy and lively dialogue that Walcott developed between the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Caribbean, both before and after its publication. Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Car…
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
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