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Preposterous Poetics The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

Goldhill Simon
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781108797023
Published
2021-09-16
Publisher
Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press
Weight
480 gr
Height
228 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
324

Author
Goldhill Simon

Biographical note

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. He is one of the best-known writers on Greek literature and cultures, publishing almost twenty books and numerous articles on texts and topics from the whole span of antiquity and its reception, especially in the Victorian era. He has broadcast regularly on television and radio around the world, and has been profiled in newspapers from Brazil to Australia. His books have won three international prizes and been translated into ten languages.

Preposterous Poetics The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

Goldhill Simon
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
Goldhill Simon
Heftet / 2021 / Engelsk
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'A playful book, brimming with merriment in its stories and curiosities .' Kate Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement

How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe.
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1. Forms of attention: time and narrative in Ecphrasis; 2. When size matters: erotics, the epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen; 3. In the beginning; 4. Preposterous poetics and the erotics of death; 5. Strange dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and the dynamics of transformation; 6. Life forms: biography and rabbinical writing coda; Acknowledgements; Bibliography. Index.
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Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape.

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'A playful book, brimming with merriment in its stories and curiosities .' Kate Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement

How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural changes that have shaped western Europe.
Read more
1. Forms of attention: time and narrative in Ecphrasis; 2. When size matters: erotics, the epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen; 3. In the beginning; 4. Preposterous poetics and the erotics of death; 5. Strange dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and the dynamics of transformation; 6. Life forms: biography and rabbinical writing coda; Acknowledgements; Bibliography. Index.
Read more
Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape.

Product details

ISBN
9781108797023
Published
2021-09-16
Publisher
Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press
Weight
480 gr
Height
228 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
324

Author
Goldhill Simon

Biographical note

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. He is one of the best-known writers on Greek literature and cultures, publishing almost twenty books and numerous articles on texts and topics from the whole span of antiquity and its reception, especially in the Victorian era. He has broadcast regularly on television and radio around the world, and has been profiled in newspapers from Brazil to Australia. His books have won three international prizes and been translated into ten languages.

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