Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781108494823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 315 str.

Simon Goldhill

Opis

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this book opens a new and exciting vision of how the literature of the first millennium shaped culture.

Recenzje

'A playful book, brimming with merriment in its stories and curiosities .' Kate Cooper, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Forms of attention: time and narrative in Ecphrasis; 2. When size matters: erotics, the epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen; 3. In the beginning; 4. Preposterous poetics and the erotics of death; 5. Strange dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and the dynamics of transformation; 6. Life forms: biography and rabbinical writing coda; Acknowledgements; Bibliography. Index.