Alexander Beecroft

Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780521194310
• ISBN-10: 0521194318
• Artikelnr.: 28516041

Autorenporträt

Alexander Beecroft is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. He has published on topics in classics, sinology and comparative literature, in journals such as Transactions of the American Philological Association, the New Left Review, and Early Medieval China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Explicit poetics in Greece and China: points of divergence and convergence
2. Epic authorship: the Lives of Homer, textuality, and panhellenism
3. Lyric authorship: poetry, genre, and the polis
4. Authorship between epic and lyric: stesichorus, the Palinode, and performance
5. Death and lingerie: cosmopolitan and panhuaxia readings of the Airs of the States
6. Summit at Fei: the poetics of diplomacy in the Zouzhuan
7. The politics of dancing: the Great King Wu dance and the Hymns of Zhou
Conclusion: scenes of authorship and master-narratives.