The Novel of Neronian Rome and Its Multimedial Transformations: Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis (Classical Presences) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0198867530 ISBN 13: 9780198867531

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 largely on the basis of his historical novel Quo vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero. The novel's vivid and moving reconstruction of religious persecution and struggle against tyranny catapulted its author into literary stardom. But, before long, Quo vadis began to 'detach' itself from the person of its author and to become a multimedial, mass culture phenomenon. In the West and in the East, it was adapted for stage and screen, provided the inspiration for works of music and other genres of literature, was transformed into comic strips and illustrated children's books, was cited in advertising, and referenced in everyday objects of material culture. This volume explores the strategies Sienkiewicz used to recreate Neronian Rome and the reasons his novel was so avidly consumed and reproduced in new editions, translations, visual illustrations, and adaptations to the stage and screen across
Europe and in the United States. The contributions render visible for English-speaking readers the impact of a Polish work of high literature on the presence of Nero, Christian persecution, and ancient Rome in Western popular culture.

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Monika Wo'zniak, Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature, University of Rome 'La Sapienza',Maria Wyke, Professor and Chair of Latin, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London

Monika Wo'zniak is Associate Professor of Polish Language and Literature at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Her research has addressed issues of literary translation, children's literature in translation, and audiovisual translation. She is co-author of Historia na ekranie. Gatunek filmowy a przeklad audiowizualny (History on the Screen. Cinematographic Genre and Audiovisual Translation) (Kraków, 2018). She is co-editor of Cinderella across Cultures (Wayne University Press, 2016) and the conference proceedings Quo vadis: da caso letterario al fenomeno della cultura di massa (Rome, 2016).

Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. Her research interests include the reception of ancient Rome, especially in popular culture. She is the author of Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History (Routledge, 1997), The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations (OUP, 2000), Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Granta and the University of Chicago Press, 2007), and Caesar in the USA (University of California Press, 2012). Wyke has edited or co-edited eight volumes to date, including The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (CUP, 2013), Julius Caesar in Western Culture (Blackwell, 2006), and The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity (Peter Lang, 1999).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198867530
• ISBN 13: 9780198867531
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 333
• Herausgeber: Wozniak Monika, Wyke Maria
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