Classical world literatures : Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman comparisons / / Wiebke Denecke

• Autore: Denecke Wiebke
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Classical literature - History and criticism; East Asian literature - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Setting the stage: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman constellations -- Starting avant la lettre: an essay on how to tell the beginnings of literature and eloquence -- Latecomers: of ornament, simplicity, and decline -- City-building or writing? : how Aeneas and Prince Shôtoku made Rome and Japan -- Rome and Kyoto: capitals, genres, gender -- Poetry in exile: Sugawara no michizane and Ovid -- Satire in foreign attire: the ambivalences of learning in late antiquity and medieval Japan -- The synoptic machine: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman juxtapositions.
• Sommario/riassunto: This title 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Classical world literatures
• ISBN: 0-19-934613-5; 0-19-997369-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205772103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno