List of Illustrations
Foreword: A Word Besides, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)
Introduction, Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Part I: Shaping Forms
1. Myth Formalism and Black Expression: The Case of Icarus, Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago, USA)
2. What Was Classics? Shane Butler (John Hopkins University, USA)
3. Mixed Media: Two Black Artists and the Icons of Classical Antiquity, Allannah Karas (University of Miami, USA)
Part II: Proximate Forms
4. Two Ways of Being Alone: Dual Form in Sappho Fragment 168b, Alex Purves (UCLA, USA)
5. Aristophanes and the Flying Sound, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)
6. What Thou Art We Know Not: Pindar and Romanticism, Tom Phillips (University of Manchester, UK)
7. "I'm sorry about the poem"; 'Narcissi' and Incommensurability in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy', Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA)
Part III: Forms (Un)becoming
8. Heraclitus Stuttered, Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto, Canada)
9. Electra, Again, Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA)
10. A Poetics of Imperceptibility in Statius's 'Thebaid', Efrossini Spentzou (Royal Holloway University, UK)
11. Form as Precarious Shelter: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'In the Mecca', Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University, USA)
Part IV: Forms Unfurling
12. Formalizations at the Threshold: Introductions to Horace, Victoria Rimell (University of Warwick, UK)
13. Quite a Bind: Couplet, Constraint, Claustrophobia, i.e., Ovid's 'Ibis', Tom Geue (Australian National University, Australia
14. Open Form in Nathaniel Mackey, Sean Alexander Gurd (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
15. 'Chal Chal Chal': Apollonius's Talos Tales (and Medea's), Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index