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:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-934613-5

0-19-997369-5

OCLC:

863167075