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An ecology of world literature : from antiquity to the present day
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ISBN: 9781781685730 9781781685723 1781685738 178168572X 9781781687291 1781687293 1781685746 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Verso

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"What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bolano and Amitav Ghosh. Beecroft identifies a series of literary ecologies, from small-scale societies to the planet as a whole, within which literary texts are produced and circulated. An Ecology of World Literature places in dialogue scholarship on ancient and modern, western and non-western texts, producing new and unexpected demands for literary study"--


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Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China
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ISBN: 9780521194310 9780511676154 9781107435483 9780511676963 0511676964 9780511681455 0511681453 0521194318 1107204690 0511739362 1282535994 9786612535994 0511678223 051168343X 0511676158 0511679475 110743548X Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.


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India after World History : Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization
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ISBN: 9789400604322 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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