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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denecke, Wiebke.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

East Asian literature--History and criticism.

East Asian literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index.

ISBN:

9780199971848

0199971846

OCLC:

869424541