Classical world literatures : Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman comparisons /
Denecke, Wiebke,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Setting the stage: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman constellations -- 2. Starting avant la lettre: an essay on how to tell the beginnings of literature and eloquence -- 3. Latecomers: of ornament, simplicity, and decline -- 4. City-building or writing? : how Aeneas and Prince Shôtoku made Rome and Japan -- 5. Rome and Kyoto: capitals, genres, gender -- 6. Poetry in exile: Sugawara no michizane and Ovid -- 7. Satire in foreign attire: the ambivalences of learning in late antiquity and medieval Japan -- 8. The synoptic machine: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman juxtapositions -- Beyond comforts of influence: deep comparisons.
Classical literature
East Asian literature