After Antiquity

Name: After Antiquity
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801433016
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Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor

Autor: Margaret Alexiou

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Cornell University Press

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With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Gree...

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Autor

Margaret Alexiou

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2002

Stránek

592

EAN

9780801433016

ISBN

9780801433016

Enbook ID

06272612

Vydavatel

Cornell University Press

Hmotnost

910

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 43

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With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In After Antiquity, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.

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