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The Novel of Neronian Rome and Its Multimedial Transformations : Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis.

This volume explores the historical novel Quo vadis written by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, examining how Sienkiewicz recreated Neronian Rome so vividly and the reasons why his novel was so avidly consumed and reproduced in new editions, translations, visual illustrations, and adaptations t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woźniak, Monika
Other Authors: Wyke, Maria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
Series:Classical Presences Ser.
Subjects:
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, > 1846-1916. > Quo vadis?
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, > 1846-1916 > Adaptations.
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, > 1846-1916
Quo vadis? (Sienkiewicz, Henryk)
Christian literature.
Rome > In literature.
Rome > In motion pictures.
Littérature chrétienne.
Christian literature
Motion pictures
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
Adaptations
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Novel of Neronian Rome and its Multimedial Transformations: Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis
  • Copyright
  • Funding Acknowledgement
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Classical Reception, Nationalisms, and the Historical Novel
  • Quo vadis: the Novel of Neronian Rome in Late Nineteenth-century Poland
  • Quo vadis: Multimedial Transformations in the Twentieth Century
  • Classical Reception and Popular Culture
  • Part I: Literary Context
  • Chapter 2: The Paradoxes of Quo vadis: the Polish Classical Tradition in Action
  • Latin in Polish
  • Nero's Rome in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 3: Sienkiewicz and the Topography of Ancient Rome: the Riddle of Ostrianum in Quo vadis
  • Chapter 4: Costumes in Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo vadis and their Literary and Painterly Sources
  • Collective Costuming
  • Protagonists' Attire
  • Imperial Costumes
  • Drawing Inspiration from Paintings
  • Latin Terminology
  • Chapter 5: Quo vadis and Ancient Rome in the United States, 1896-1905
  • Petronius
  • Nero's Reign
  • Sensationalism, the Christians, and Gibbon
  • Chapter 6: Comparing the Reception of Quo vadis and Ben-Hur in the United States, 1896-1913
  • Part II: Quo Vadis up to the Second World War
  • Chapter 7: Quo vadis on the Stage
  • Chapter 8: Dangerous Liaisons: Quo vadis? (1913, dir. Enrico Guazzoni) and the Previous Theatrical Adaptations of Sienkiewicz's Novel
  • Cinema as a Constructor of Worlds
  • Selective Transmediality
  • Tableau-illustration: the Adaptations by Silvano D'Arborio and Émile Moreau
  • Densification: Quo Vadis? by Henri Cain and Jean Nouguès
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9: Word and Image: Competitive Adaptation in the Feature Film Quo vadis? (1913)
  • Cinema as Adaptation
  • The Mission of Cinema
  • The Politics of Cinema
  • The Art of Cinema
  • The Commerce of Cinema
  • The Victory of the Image
  • Chapter 10: Illustrating Quo vadis in Italy (1900-1925): between Cultivated Tradition and Popular Culture
  • The Paratexts and their Context
  • Same Choices, Different Meanings
  • One Scene, Several Strategies
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Horror amid Sweetness: Kitsch and the Intertextual Strategies of Quo vadis Postcards
  • Part III: Quo Vadis After the Second World War
  • Chapter 12: 'A more permanent world': Quo vadis (1951), Runaway Production, and the Internationalization of Hollywood
  • Before the Epic
  • Romans on the Run
  • Shooting in Rome
  • Legacy
  • Chapter 13: MGM's Quo vadis: from Historical Fiction to Screen Spectacle
  • Nero: Qualis artifex!
  • Lygia: Spectacle
  • God: Quo vadis, Domine?
  • 4. Return of The Big One
  • Chapter 14: 'O omnivorous powers, hail!: 'Film Dialogue in Quo vadis (1951)
  • Dialogue in Historical Films
  • Hollywood on the Tiber: Quo Vadis, AD 1951