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Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China : = patterns of literary circulation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China :/ Alexander Beecroft.
Reminder of title:	patterns of literary circulation /
remainder title:	Authorship & Cultural Identity in Early Greece & China
Author:	Beecroft, Alexander,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Authorship. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676154
ISBN:	9780511676154 (ebook)

Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China : = patterns of literary circulation /
Beecroft, Alexander,1973-

Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China :patterns of literary circulation /Authorship & Cultural Identity in Early Greece & ChinaAlexander Beecroft. - 1 online resource (ix, 328 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Explicit poetics in Greece and China : points of divergence and convergence -- Epic authorship : the lives of Homer, textuality and panhellenism -- Lyric authorship : poetry, genre, and the polis -- Authorship between epic and lyric : Stesichorus, the Palinode, and performance -- Death and lingerie : cosmopolitan and panhuaxia readings of the airs of the states -- Summit at Fei : the poetics of diplomacy in the Zuozhuan -- The politics of dancing : the great King Wu dance and the hymns of Zhou -- Conclusion : scenes of authorship and master-narratives.

In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian. Many of these anecdotes and narratives have long been rejected as spurious or motivated by naïve biographical criticism. Beecroft argues that these texts effectively negotiated the tensions between local and pan-cultural audiences. The figure of the author thus served as a catalyst to a sense of shared cultural identity in both the Greek and Chinese worlds. It also facilitated the emergence of both cultures as the bases for cosmopolitan world orders.

ISBN: 9780511676154 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

566803
Authorship.

LC Class. No.: PN146 / .B38 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 808/.0209

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