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Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China : patterns of literary circulation /

In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beecroft, Alexander, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Explicit poetics in Greece and China : points of divergence and convergence
  • Epic authorship : the lives of Homer, textuality and panhellenism
  • Lyric authorship : poetry, genre, and the polis
  • Authorship between epic and lyric : Stesichorus, the Palinode, and performance
  • Death and lingerie : cosmopolitan and panhuaxia readings of the airs of the states
  • Summit at Fei : the poetics of diplomacy in the Zuozhuan
  • The politics of dancing : the great King Wu dance and the hymns of Zhou
  • Conclusion : scenes of authorship and master-narratives.