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  1. The poetics of colonization
    from city to text in archaic Greece
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195359232; 9780195083996; 9780195359237
    RVK Categories: FE 1175 ; FE 3789 ; NH 5550 ; NH 5650
    Subjects: Cities and towns; Greek literature; Literature and history; Narration (Rhetoric); Poetics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Steden; Kolonisten; Oorsprong; Letterkunde; Grieks; Historia antiga / grecia (literatura); Literatura grega (historia e critica); Geschichte; Griechisch; Literatur; Stadt; Greek literature; Cities and towns; Narration (Rhetoric); Literature and history; City and town life in literature; Poetics; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Rhetoric, Ancient; Griechisch; Kolonisation <Motiv>; Gründung; Gründung <Motiv>; Kolonisation; Stadt; Stadt <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 209 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and indexes

    Introduction: The Poetics of Colonization; Part I. Narratives and Metaphors: Translating the City into Text; Part II. Texts in Context: Staging the City; Conclusion: Interpreting the Metaphors; Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Passages; Subject Index

    Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later

  2. The poetics of colonization
    from city to text in archaic Greece
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about... more

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    Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continue to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled, and this book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later

     

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