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Classical World Literatures

by Wiebke Denecke

Classical literature, history and criticismOriental literature, history and criticismClassical literatureCross-cultural studiesHistory and criticismEast Asian literatureKlassikGriechisch

This title captures the striking similarities between the ways early Japanese writers wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents.

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