Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Epic Receptions -- Epic Worlds -- Notes -- Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents -- Staging --...
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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Epic Receptions -- Epic Worlds -- Notes -- Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents -- Staging -- Mashup -- Corruptible Body -- Macro and Micro -- The Maggot and the Biosphere -- Epic DNA -- Variation and Mutation -- Another Continent -- Notes -- "Wheels Working Together: The Popol Wuj and Time Commences in Xibalbá as Markers of a Maya Cosmovision" -- Maya Cosmovision -- The Popol Wuj and De Lión's Time Commences in Xibalbá -- The Popol Wuj -- Luis de Lión, Time Commences in Xibalbá -- Notes -- Reception Configurations: The Case of European Epic in India -- Argument -- Background -- The Indian Epic in the Nineteenth Century -- Aurobindo Ghose -- Aurobindo and Savitri -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Formal Experiments in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad -- The Setting: The Underworld -- Framing The Penelopiad -- Notes -- Part II: Greek Philosophical Receptions -- Disagreement and Reception: Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge -- Part 1: A Schematization of Some Basic Forms of Critical Engagement Between Philosophical Positions3 -- Part 2: Late Hellenistic Peripatetics Responding to the Stoic Challenge -- Notes -- "Now We Must Consider That Some of the Ancients Discovered the Truth": Reception and Antiquity in Ancient Neoplatonism -- The Early Empire -- Commentary in Neoplatonism -- Developing ennoiai: Plotinus and Simplicius -- Plotinus -- Simplicius -- Notes -- Reading and Commenting on Aristotle's Rhetoric in Arabic -- Aristotle's Rhetoric in antiquity -- Aristotle's Rhetoric in Arabic -- The Arabic Reception of the Rhetoric -- The Afterlife of the Arabic Rhetoric -- Conclusion: Misunderstanding and Inspiration -- Notes -- Part III: Drama and Receptions A Third Antike: Hans Henny Jahnn's Medea and the Introduction of the "Sumerian" to Modern German Literature -- Notes -- American Bushido: A Kabuki Play Transplanted -- Origins -- Literary and Artistic Responses -- Terakoya -- Terakoya Translated into European Languages -- Reception of Bushido in the USA -- Notes -- Tamil "Translation," French Orientalism, and Indian Dramatic Traditions in Louis Jacolliot's La Devadassi (1868) -- Jacolliot: Orientalist Popularizer -- Drama as Ethnography: European Orientalism and Sanskrit Studies -- Marriage and Legitimacy in Colonial Contexts and La Devadassi -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part IV: Lyric Receptions -- Goethe's Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten: Vernacular Universal, Erotica Sinica, and the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit -- Erotica Sinica or the European Representation of the Chinese Garden -- Autumn of Renunciation or the Temporality of Nachträglichkeit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Mediterranean Metaphor -- The California Sublime -- Facing West -- Notes -- Inventing China: The American Tradition of Translating Chinese Poetry -- I. Ezra Pound Revisited -- II. Critical Discourse on Pound and China -- III. From Poetry to Language -- IV. Chinese Poetry and Nature -- V. Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Wilderness -- VII. Conclusion -- Notes -- Part V: Politics and Sociology of Reception -- Meaning, Reception, and the Use of Classics: Theoretical Considerations in a Chinese Context -- Greek and Roman Classics in China: From the Late Ming to the 1980s -- Classical Studies in China Today -- The Classical and the Limitations of Reception Theory -- Notes -- The Sociology of Reception -- Stages and Stakes in the Reception Process -- Literary Trials -- Critical Reception -- The Effects of Reception on the Author -- The Transnational Circulation of Literary Works -- The Sociology and History of Reading Conclusion -- Notes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Primary Texts -- Index
