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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
August 21, 2014
Pages
340
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781107435483
ISBN-10
110743548X
Original list price
$44.99
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian. Many of these anecdotes and narratives have long been rejected as spurious or motivated by naïve biographical criticism. Beecroft argues that these texts effectively negotiated the tensions between local and pan-cultural audiences. The figure of the author thus served as a catalyst to a sense of shared cultural identity in both the Greek and Chinese worlds. It also facilitated the emergence of both cultures as the bases for cosmopolitan world orders.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (January 25, 2010)
9780521194310 | details & prices | 328 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $99.99
Paperback
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from Cambridge Univ Pr (August 21, 2014)
9781107435483 | details & prices | 340 pages | List price $44.99
About: 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 textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas.
About: 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 textualized, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas.
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