Canonisation as Innovation

Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium Bce

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on canonisation as a form of cultural formation, asking why and how canonisation works in this particular way and explaining the importance of the first millennium BCE for these question and vice versa. As a result of this focus, notions like anchoring, cultural memory, embedding and innovation play an important role throughout the book.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9789004520257
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2022
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill