By Wiebke Denecke
Ever when you consider that Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there were a couple of influential reviews evaluating historical East Asian and Greco-Roman heritage and tradition. although, to this point there was no comparative learn regarding a number of literary traditions in those cultural spheres. This ebook compares the dynamics among the more youthful literary cultures of Japan and Rome and the literatures in their venerable predecessors, China and Greece. How have been writers of the more youthful cultures of Rome and Japan suffering from the presence of an older "reference culture," whose sophistication they sought after, while they anxiously strove to say their very own particular id? How did they take on the problem of adopting the reference culture's literary genres, rhetorical refinement, and conceptual vocabulary for writing texts in numerous languages and inside distinctive political and cultural contexts?
Classical global Literatures captures the outstanding similarities among the methods early jap authors wrote their very own literature via and opposed to the literary precedents of China, and the methods Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents. however it additionally brings to gentle suggestive divergences which are rooted in geopolitical, linguistic, sociohistorical, and aesthetic alterations among early eastern and Roman literary cultures. providing a technique of "deep comparability" for the cross-cultural comparability of premodern literary cultures and calling for a ramification of worldwide literature debates into the traditional and medieval worlds, Classical international Literatures is either a theoretical intervention and a call for participation to learn and re-read 4 significant literary traditions in an cutting edge and illuminating mild.
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In a book of this scope it would have been impossible to represent all periods, genres, and authors evenly. It is ultimately also undesirable. I have instead focused on particular themes and issues and selected the Japanese and Latin texts that appeared most interesting and illuminating as such, and most resonant as a comparative pair. The reader will see that I have placed enormous emphasis on certain works by Cicero, on Virgil’s Aeneid, and, more generally, on works from the Late Republican and Augustan Periods.
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16 For an overview of the development of these three canons into the modern period see Shirane 2000b. indd 26 | Classical World Literatures 10/12/2013 8:03:05 PM eighth and ninth centuries. 17 Although only a small fraction of students passed the highest level in the examination system, the study of the Wenxuan and the Chinese official histories in this popular track provided all students with an intimate familiarity with Chinese historical events and protagonists, with the stylistic variety of various prose genres used in official correspondence, and with precious literary vocabulary.