Authorship and cultural identity in early Greece and China
Subtitle: patterns of literary circulation
By: Alexander Beecroft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521194310
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explicit poetics in Greece and China : points of divergence and convergence; title: Epic authorship : the lives of Homer, textuality and panhellenism; title: Lyric authorship : poetry, genre, and the polis; title: Authorship between epic and lyric : Stesichorus, the Palinode, and performance; title: Death and lingerie : cosmopolitan and panhuaxia readings of the airs of the states; title: Summit at Fei : the poetics of diplomacy in the Zuozhuan; title: The politics of dancing : the great King Wu dance and the hymns of Zhou; title: Conclusion : scenes of authorship and master-narratives.