Description: Further DetailsTitle: A. D. MomiglianoCondition: NewSubtitle: Studies on Modern ScholarshipISBN-10: 0520085450EAN: 9780520085459ISBN: 9780520085459Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/02/1994Description: Using pagan prose fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, Bowersock investigates the complex relationship among perceived and presented 'historical' and 'fictional' truths. Bowersock's superb lecturing style is successfully transferred into writing with force and eloquence, as he weaves accounts from a wide range of sources into his text, illuminating social attitudes of the period and persuasively arguing that fiction of the period was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives. In the second half of the first century emerges a new kind of fiction including outlandish tales of travel, romance and comic novels. Bowersock concentrates on secular literature, illuminating not only its literary motifs, but also reconstructing the societal context as one engrossed in fabrications and all kinds of revisions or rewriting. Using these less familiar materials as his points of reference, he reads into familiar Christian material, making linkages and casting new light on familiar subjects, as well as providing some provocative interpretations of familiar Christian texts.Bowersock uses close historical and literary analyses of specific passages of works, and pays attention to larger and more general issues and questions around the relationship between fiction and history and how we read them. This book will be of basic intellectual concern to all raised in the environment of Christian belief.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 499gContributor: G. W. Bowersock (Edited by), T. J. Cornell (Edited by)Author: G. W. BowersockGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 1994 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A. D. Momigliano
Title: A. D. Momigliano
Subtitle: Studies on Modern Scholarship
ISBN-10: 0520085450
EAN: 9780520085459
ISBN: 9780520085459
Release Date: 08/02/1994
Release Year: 1994
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: T. J. Cornell (Edited by)
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 364 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A. D. Momigliano : Studies on Modern Scholarship
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Ancient / General, General, Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Education, History
Author: T. J. Cornell
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
