The Invention of Literature: From Greek Intoxication to the Latin Book - Rilegato

Dupont, Florence

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ISBN 10: 080185864X ISBN 13: 9780801858642

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Examines the question of whether the culture of antiquity has been distorted in being represented as the "cradle of the arts and literature." Each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of a particular text that is essential in understanding the relationship between orality and writing-reading in the ancient world, combining philological analysis, pragmatics in the linguistic sense, and cultural anthropology. The author is a professor the UnfversftT de Nancy II. Originally published as L'invention de la littTrature: de l'ivresse grecque au livre latin , La DTcouverte, 1994. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Descrizione del libro:

Understanding a lyric or an epic as it was understood in its time requires a radical reconsideration of what reading is--and what it means.

L'autore:

Florence Dupont is a professor at the Université de Nancy II. Her other books include Le plaisir et la loi, La vie quotidienne du citoyen romain sous la République, and Homere et Dallas: Introduction à la critique anthropologique. Janet Lloyd is the translator of numerous academic books in the humanities, most recently The Spears of Twilight by Philippe Descola (awarded the Scott-Moncrieff prize for translation) and Sun Yat-sen by Marie-Claire Bergere.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 080185864X
• ISBN 13: 9780801858642
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287