Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill (Unive...
Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill (Unive...
Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge).
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/4850
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English
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xxiii, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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 Rabbi...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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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 producti...
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Preposterous poetics : the politics and aesthetics of form in late antiquity / Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge).
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Greek culture in the Roman world
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-285) and indexes.
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G 2020/4850
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110849482X
9781108494823
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880.09
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991024369312302626
