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CLASSICAL WORLD LITERATURES
SINO-JAPANESE AND GRECO-ROMAN COMPARISONS |
| By: |
Wiebke Denecke |
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Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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£84.39 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199971846 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199971848 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2013 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
Classical World Literatures captures the striking similarities between the ways Early Japanese writers wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents. |
| Synopsis: |
Ever since Karl Jasper's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. Most of these have centered on the emergence of the world's philosophical and religious traditions, or on models of empire building. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving literatures of multiple traditions in the ancient East Asian and Mediterranean cultural spheres. At first glance, it would appear that the literary cultures of early Japan and Rome share little in common with each other. Yet both were intimately connected with the literature of antecedent "reference cultures," China and Greece respectively. These connections had far-reaching legal, ethical, material, linguistic, bibliographical, and literary consequences that made for distinctive Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman dynamics. Exploring writers from Otomo no Yakamochi to Sugawara no Michizane and Sei Shonagon and from Cicero and Virgil to Ovid and |
| Illustrations: |
13 illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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