Elizabeth Vandiver
Biographic Data
| ID | 5655858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Vandiver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandiver |
| SIGNATURE | VANDIVER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitman College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
This book examines how, when, and why four First World War poets engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the war. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds but for each of the writers engagement with classical material was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Gree…
Afterword
The very existence of this special issue of CRJ illustrates the distance that classical reception studies of the First World War have traveled since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I first began to think about the war poets and classical reception. At that time very little had been written on how Classics was reflected in the poetry of the War, and I feared this absence of commentary meant that there simply was not much worth saying about th…
‘Strangers are from Zeus’
This chapter discusses Herodotus' use of the Homeric concept of xenia in the Histories. It argues that the appearance of xenia in key passages reflects the importance of Homeric epic and of the Greek legendary and mythic tradition for Herodotus' historiography. Herodotus foregrounds xenia in two logoi: Croesus' acceptance of Adrastus as a xenos (I.35–45) and Proteus' rebuke of Paris for wronging Menelaus (II.114–117). These logoi culminate in the…
Translating Catullus
This chapter contains section titled: Poetry is What is Lost in Translation” The Problem of Meter Vocabulary and Lexical Fidelity Sexual Invective and Obscenity When the Sound the Sense The Alexandrian Catullus Catullus Translates
Homer in British World War One Poetry
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Eastern Front: Gallipoli and Troy The Western Front: Julian Grenfell's ‘Into Battle’ The Western Front: Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg Conclusion: Gallipoli Revisited
Afterword
The very existence of this special issue of CRJ illustrates the distance that classical reception studies of the First World War have traveled since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I first began to think about the war poets and classical reception. At that time very little had been written on how Classics was reflected in the poetry of the War, and I feared this absence of commentary meant that there simply was not much worth saying about th…
Translating Catullus
This chapter contains section titled: Poetry is What is Lost in Translation” The Problem of Meter Vocabulary and Lexical Fidelity Sexual Invective and Obscenity When the Sound the Sense The Alexandrian Catullus Catullus Translates
Homer in British World War One Poetry
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Eastern Front: Gallipoli and Troy The Western Front: Julian Grenfell's ‘Into Battle’ The Western Front: Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg Conclusion: Gallipoli Revisited
‘Strangers are from Zeus’
This chapter discusses Herodotus' use of the Homeric concept of xenia in the Histories. It argues that the appearance of xenia in key passages reflects the importance of Homeric epic and of the Greek legendary and mythic tradition for Herodotus' historiography. Herodotus foregrounds xenia in two logoi: Croesus' acceptance of Adrastus as a xenos (I.35–45) and Proteus' rebuke of Paris for wronging Menelaus (II.114–117). These logoi culminate in the…
Afterword
The very existence of this special issue of CRJ illustrates the distance that classical reception studies of the First World War have traveled since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I first began to think about the war poets and classical reception. At that time very little had been written on how Classics was reflected in the poetry of the War, and I feared this absence of commentary meant that there simply was not much worth saying about th…
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
This book examines how, when, and why four First World War poets engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity. Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the war. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds but for each of the writers engagement with classical material was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Gree…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Section (typography) (2 works) · Spanish Civil War (2 works)