Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China Patterns of Literary Circulation 1st Edition by Alexander Beecroft ISBN 1139484249 9781139484244

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ISBN 10: 1139484249

ISBN 13: 9781139484244 

Author: Alexander Beecroft

In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of authorship as found in poetic biographies such as Lives of Homer and the Zuozhuan, and in the works of other philosophical and historical authors like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Confucius, and Sima Qian. Many of these anecdotes and narratives have long been rejected as spurious or motivated by naïve biographical criticism. Beecroft argues that these texts effectively negotiated the tensions between local and pan-cultural audiences. The figure of the author thus served as a catalyst to a sense of shared cultural identity in both the Greek and Chinese worlds. It also facilitated the emergence of both cultures as the bases for cosmopolitan world orders. 

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Explicit Poetics in Greece and China
Chapter 2: Epic Authorship
Chapter 3: Lyric Authorship
Chapter 4: Authorship between Epic and Lyric
Chapter 5: Death and Lingerie
Chapter 6: Summit at Fei
Chapter 7: The Politics of Dancing 

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