The Classical Moment (eBook, PDF)

Views from Seven Literatures
Redaktion: Holst-Warhaft, Gail; McCann, David R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such "moments" have in common, how they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary creation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216316046
• Artikelnr.: 75141862

Autorenporträt

Gail Holst-Warhaft is adjunct associate professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. David R. McCann is Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Literature at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Wake of the Greek Classical Moment
Chapter 3 "They Requested Him as God of Their City": A Classical Moment in
the Mesopotamian Experience
Chapter 4 The Classical Moment in India: The Grammar of Discrimination in
Kalidasa
Chapter 5 The Classical Moment in China
Chapter 6 Unstating the Classical Moment: The Logic of Forms and Forces in
Heian Japan
Chapter 7 Performing Dragons: The Construction of a Korean Classical Moment
Chapter 8 In Search of Vietnamese Classical Moments
Chapter 9 About the Contributors
Chapter 10 Index