Classical traditions in modern fantasy

Content: Fantasies of antiquity / Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens Classical apparitions in (pre- )modern fantasy Classical epic and the poetics of modern fantasy / Jesse Weiner Theorizing fantasy: enchantment, parody, and the classical tradition / Cecilie Flugt The mirror crack'd: fractured classicisms in the pre-Raphaelites and Victorian illustration / Genevieve S. Gessert Classical antiquity and the timeless horrors of H.P. Lovecraft / Robinson Peter Krämer False medievalism & other ancient fantasies Ancient underworlds in J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit / Benjamin Eldon Stevens C.S. Lewis's The voyage of the "Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jeff Winkle A time for fantasy: retelling Apuleius in in C.S. Lewis's Till we have faces / Marcus Folch Children and (other) ancient monsters The classical pantheon in children's fantasy literature / Sarah Annes Brown Orestes & the half-blood prince: ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter series / Brett M. Rogers Filthy harpies and fictive knowledge in Philip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy / Antonia Syson Girls in bears' clothing in Greek mythology and Disney/Pixar's brave / Elizabeth Manwell (Post)modern fantasies of antiquity Fantasies of Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The brainsex paintings" (Plainwater) / Sasha-Mae Eccleston Aeneas' American new world in Jo Graham's Black ships / Jennifer A. Rea Genre, mimesis, and Virgilian intertext in George R.R. Martin's A song of ice and fire / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov