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| Verfasst von: | Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Titel: | Literary Territories |
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| Ausgabe: | 1 |
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| Verlagsort: | New York |
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| Verlag: | Oxford University Press |
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| | Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
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| Jahr: | 2016 |
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| Umfang: | 217 S. |
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| Inhalt: | This book introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200 to 900 ce, in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapmaking, to the systematization of Ptolemy’s scientific works, this book argues that forms of literature that were conceived and produced in very different environments and for different purposes in Late Antiquity nevertheless shared an aesthetic sensibility which treated the classical “inhabited world,” the oikoumenē, as a literary metaphor for the collection and organization of knowledge. This type of “cartographical thinking” stresses the world of knowledge that is encapsulated in the literary archive. The archival aesthetic coincided with an explosion of late antique travel and Christian pilgrimage which in itself suggests important unifying themes between visual and textual conceptions of space. Indeed, by the end of Late Antiquity the geographical mode appears in nearly every type of writing in multiple Christian languages (Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and others). The geographical mode of writing also corresponded with new ways in which the classical inheritance was being reshaped for a Christian context. The diffusion of cartographical thinking throughout the real-world oikoumenē, now the Christian Roman empire, was a fundamental intellectual trajectory of Late Antiquity. |
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| ISBN: | 9780190221232 |
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| | 0190221232 |
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| Jahr Quelle: | 2015 ; 2016 |
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| DOI: | doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190221232.001.0001 |
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| URL: | http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/edok?dok=https%3A%2F%2Ffanyv88.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780190221232.001.0001 |
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| | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190221232.001.0001 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Sach-SW: | Classical Literature |
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| | Geography in literature |
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| | Literature, Ancient |
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