Isbn: 9780801858642 - the invention of literature: from greek intoxication to the latin book (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. This is the first American edition and the first printing thereof. Book itself has blue cloth covers with silver lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. 287 pages. Clean & tight. The work presents classical writings in all their differences. A nice copy. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover, 8vo., 282 pp. Ex-Lib, with usual faults, otherwise a clean, tight copy in dustjacket.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Originally published under the title 'L'invention de la littérature: de l'ivresse grecque au livre latin' -- La Découverte, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index. Translated from the original French. Contents; Note to the Reader. Introduction. Toward Another Use of Antiquity: A Recreative Otherness. p. 1. I. Culture of Intoxication: Singing with Nothing to Say. p. 19. 1. Song for Cleobulus. p. 25. 2. Invention of Anacreon. p. 51. II. Culture of the Kiss: Speaking with Nothing to Say. p. 101. 3. Games of Catullus. p. 111. 4. Kisses in the Greek Manner and Roman Cuisine. p. 128. III. Story Culture: Books That Were Not for Reading. p. 171.5. Golden Ass Stories. p. 179. 6. Writing Sandwiched between Two Voices. p. 204. Conclusion. The Entropy of Cultural Changes. p. 247. App. Some Curious Documents. p. 259. Notes. p. 263. Index. p. 283. Subjects; Classical literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature and society Greece. Literature and society Rome. Rhetoric, ancient. Classical literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature and society Greece. Literature and society Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Greece Civilization. Rome Civilization. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Originally published under the title 'L'invention de la littérature: de l'ivresse grecque au livre latin' -- La Découverte, 1994. Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-282) and index. Translated from the original French. Contents; Note to the Reader. Introduction. Toward Another Use of Antiquity: A Recreative Otherness. p. 1. I. Culture of Intoxication: Singing with Nothing to Say. p. 19. 1. Song for Cleobulus. p. 25. 2. Invention of Anacreon. p. 51. II. Culture of the Kiss: Speaking with Nothing to Say. p. 101. 3. Games of Catullus. p. 111. 4. Kisses in the Greek Manner and Roman Cuisine. p. 128. III. Story Culture: Books That Were Not for Reading. p. 171.5. Golden Ass Stories. p. 179. 6. Writing Sandwiched between Two Voices. p. 204. Conclusion. The Entropy of Cultural Changes. p. 247. App. Some Curious Documents. p. 259. Notes. p. 263. Index. p. 283. Subjects; Classical literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature and society Greece. Literature and society Rome. Rhetoric, ancient. Classical literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Literature and society Greece. Literature and society Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Greece Civilization. Rome Civilization. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later Printing. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Antiquity, which is claimed to have invented literature, philosophy, and history, humanism, human rights, and democracy, is called upon to vouch for us, the Europeans of today, in the face of the passing centuries, by demonstrating that our own civilization cannot possibly be mortal since it is civilization itself. But there is another, more disorienting way of using antiquity. The present work would like to suggest a rediscovery of the alienness of the ancients, for this would be a way of rediscovering ourselves in all our repressed diversity. -- from the Introduction. Writing, so often claimed as the necessary tool for social and individual progress, has another history. In classical Greece, writing was looked upon with suspicion, an attempt to subject the reader to the writer's will. The spread of books and their exaltation announced the victory of conquerors. In antiquity, writing was not written for a literary public but for private ceremonies, trade, and secrecy. The invention of literature, writes Florence Dupont, is recent, and its classical ancestry is not firm. Rather than representing solely the remains of a network of readers and writers, the odes, epics, tales, and dramas of Greece and Rome had a much more diversified background and purpose. Some works were intended to be read in groups; other works were not meant to be read at all. The pleasures of reading -- a vital characteristic of literature -- were tied up in pleasures that were by no means private or intellectual. Resisting the traditional temptation to project current tastes and beliefs backward upon Greece and Rome, The Invention of Literature presents classical writings in all their differences. The labor of 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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. There is a slight nick on the bottom.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.