The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece / / Carol Dougherty

• Autore: Dougherty Carol
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 880.9/321732
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Greece - Historiography; City and town life in literature; Colonies in literature; Greek literature - History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Literature and history - Greece; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500; Poetics - History - To 1500; Rhetoric, Ancient
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Colonies Historiography
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: The Poetics of Colonization; Part I. Narratives and Metaphors: Translating the City into Text; Part II. Texts in Context: Staging the City; Conclusion: Interpreting the Metaphors; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Passages; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation.
• Titolo autorizzato: The poetics of colonization
• ISBN: 0-19-770497-2; 1-280-76032-X; 0-19-535923-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784830403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II