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Author Dougherty, Carol.

Title The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece / Carol Dougherty.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism.
Greek literature.
Cities and towns -- Greece -- Historiography.
Cities and towns.
Greece.
Historiography.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Narration (Rhetoric)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Literature and history -- Greece.
Literature and history.
City and town life in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Poetics -- History -- To 1500.
Poetics.
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greece -- Colonies -- Historiography.
Colonies.
Indexed Term Greek literature
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dougherty, Carol. Poetics of colonization. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 92041090
ISBN 9780195359237 (electronic book)
0195359232 (electronic book)
0195083997 (Cloth)
9780195083996