Andrew Scheil

Babylon Under Western Eyes

A Study of Allusion and Myth

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Produktbeschreibung

Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442637337
• ISBN-10: 1442637331
• Artikelnr.: 43857926

Autorenporträt

Andrew Scheil is the Donald V. Hawkins Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Babylon as Political Metaphor
Chapter One: The Political Image of Babylon in Antiquity
Chapter Two: Political Babylon in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Chapter Three: Political Babylon from the Great Schism to the Present
Part II: Babylon as Degenerate Archetype
Chapter Four: The Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy: The Cursed
Race
Chapter Five: The Post-Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy and the
Cursed Race Archetype
Part III: Babylon as Sublime Topos
Chapter Six: City of Ruins
Chapter Seven: Babylon and the Coordinates of Romance
Conclusion