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
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- 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.
Read more- 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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- 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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