Lists And Catalogues In Ancient Literature And Beyond

Author : Rebecca Laemmle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712237
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond written by Rebecca Laemmle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.

Author : Rebecca Laemmle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110712288
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond written by Rebecca Laemmle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.

Author : Athena Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108897282
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Lists written by Athena Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek Lists brings together catalogic texts from a variety of genres, arguing that the list form was the ancient mode of expressing value through text. Ranging from Homer's Catalogue of Ships through Attic comedy and Hellenistic poetry to temple inventories, the book draws connections among texts seldom juxtaposed, examining the ways in which lists can stand in for objects, create value, act as methods of control, and even approximate the infinite. Athena Kirk analyzes how lists come to stand as a genre in their own right, shedding light on both under-studied and well-known sources to engage scholars and students of Classical literature, ancient history, and ancient languages.

Author : Salvatore Liccardo
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004686606
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Names, New Peoples: Listing Ethnonyms in Late Antiquity written by Salvatore Liccardo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No people is nameless, and lists of words are as old as writing systems. And yet, both subjects can appear unpromising to historians. This volume shows the contrary by examining the various meanings and functions of ethnonyms in Late Antiquity: added to catalogues of provinces, they reflect the political messages and the regulating power of the imperial bureaucracy; included in schoolbooks, they mirror educational practices and reveal the geographical and ethnic landscapes taught at school; placed on a map, they help make sense of the world in times of transition.

Author : Roman Alexander Barton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030769704
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration written by Roman Alexander Barton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, medieval painting, Enlightenment periodicals, nineteenth-century botanical geography, American Beat poetry and contemporary photobooks. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is a unique contribution to an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists.

Author : Richard William Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of Ancient Literature written by Richard William Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1562 pages
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Download or read book Book-auction Records written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481477
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture written by Reviel Netz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.

Author : Frank Karslake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Author : Margalit Finkelberg
Publisher : Jerusalem Studies in Religion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer, the Bible, and Beyond written by Margalit Finkelberg and published by Jerusalem Studies in Religion. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of experts discusses the processes of canon-formation in the ancient world, addressing such issues as canon and the articulation of identity; the hermeneutical attitude toward canonical texts; textual fixity and openness; oral and written canons; methods of transmission, and more.