The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece.

Dougherty, Carol:

ISBN 10: 0195083997 / ISBN 13: 9780195083996

Editore: Oxford University Press. 01.10.1993., 1993

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X., 209 Seiten /pages. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continued to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled. This book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century b.c.e. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. -- This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement. -- Unique in its focus on issues of representation and colonial ideology, rather than the traditional historical approach, this book adds much to the study of the archaic colonization movement. Through new historicist readings, Carol Dougherty shows how, long after the Greek colonization movement itself was over, the colonial tale, embedded in important poetic genres and performed as part of significant civic occasions, enabled the Greeks to continue to colonize the past and to establish themselves as the imperial power in that cultural memory. ISBN 9780195083996 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 548 Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dustjacket.

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• Titolo: The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece.
• Editore: Oxford University Press. 01.10.1993.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195083997
• ISBN 13: 9780195083996
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Gut
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Peso: 548 grammi
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Riassunto

Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story-lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of the Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement.

Informazioni sull?autore

Carol Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at Wellesley College.