Classical World Literatures
Subtitle: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780199971848
Subjects: Classical literature, history and criticism; Oriental literature, history and criticism
Description: This title captures the striking similarities between the ways early Japanese writers wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents.