Alexander Beecroft: 2 books
Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
Patterns of Literary Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
In this book, Alexander Beecroft explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved from being local, oral, and anonymous to being textualised, interpreted, and circulated over increasingly wider areas. Beecroft re-examines representations of...
An Ecology of World Literature
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic...