Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition
Title | Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191501670 |
In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussion, she argues that Morrison's classical allusiveness is characterized by a strategic ambivalence. Adopting a thematic, rather than novel-by-novel approach, Roynon demonstrates that Morrison's classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American history and culture that her work effects. Building on recent developments in race theory, transnational studies, and Classical Reception studies, the volume positions Morrison within a genealogy of intellectuals who have challenged the purported conservative nature of Greek and Roman tradition, and who have revealed its construction as a 'white' or pure and purifying force to be a fabrication of the Enlightenment. Exploring the ways in which Morrison's dialogue with Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, and Ovid relates to her simultaneous dialogue with many other American literary forebears - from Cotton Mather to Willa Cather, or from Pauline Hopkins to F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner - Roynon shows that Morrison's classicism enables her to fulfil her own imperative that 'the past has to be revised'.
Transforming America
Title | Transforming America PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Kate Roynon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition
Title | Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Classicism in literature |
ISBN | 9780191760532 |
In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussions, she argues that classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American culture that Morrison's work effects.
Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition
Title | Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199698686 |
In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussions, she argues that classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American culture that Morrison's work effects.
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction
Title | The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | BAAS Paperbacks |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-01-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781474434041 |
This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.
The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107003911 |
Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction
Title | The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Tessa Roynon |
Publisher | BAAS Paperbacks |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-01-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781474434034 |
This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.