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.
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.
Setting the stage: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman constellations -- Starting avant la lettre: an essay on how to tell the beginnings of literature and eloquence -- Latecomers: of ornament, simplicity, and decline -- City-building or writing? : how Aeneas and Prince Shôtoku made R…
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.
"The importance of the rich corpus of "Masters Literature" that developed in early China since the fifth century BCE has long been recognized. But just what are these texts? Scholars have often approached them as philosophy, but these writings have also been studied as literatur…