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Author:

Goldhill, Simon, author.

Title:

Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxiii, 300 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Classical literature--History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
Christianity--Influence.
Judaism--Influence.
Civilization, Classical.
Christian literature, Early.
Christianity--Influence.
Civilization, Classical.
Classical literature.
Hebrew literature, Medieval.
Judaism--Influence.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Forms of Attention: Time and Narrative in Ecphrasis -- When Size Matters: Erotics, the Epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen -- In the Beginning -- Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death -- Strange Dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and The Dynamics of Transformation -- Life Forms: Biography and Rabbinical Writing -- Coda.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Greek culture in the Roman world

ISBN:

1108797024
9781108797023
110849482X
9781108494823

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1117319313

LCCN:

2019039281

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)