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Preposterous Poetics

Preposterous Poetics
The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

Part of Greek Culture in the Roman World

Author: Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge

Date Published: September 2021
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isbn: 9781108797023

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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.
- Introduces a broad range of literature never before studied together that throws crucial light on the development of Western culture
- Shows how crucial and influential texts have been ignored by the formation of modern disciplines
- Employs a brilliant new methodological exposition of how literary form changes due to religious changes
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'A playful book, brimming with merriment in its stories and curiosities .' Kate Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement

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Product details
- Date Published: September 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108797023
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 150 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
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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