| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 18, 2013) |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- History and criticism
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East Asian literature -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Classical literature
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East Asian literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199973699 |
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0199973695 |
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9780199971848 |
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0199971846 |
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