| Condensing Texts - Condensed Texts Contributor(s): Horster, Marietta (Editor), Reitz, Christiane (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3515093958 ISBN-13: 9783515093958 Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH OUR PRICE: $162.45 Product Type: Hardcover Language: German Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - History | Ancient - General - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 880.9 |
| LCCN: 2011402229 |
| Series: Palingenesia |
| Physical Information: 764 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Abbreviating, excerpting and epitomising is a complex intellectual process. Throughout antiquity, both producers and users of texts relied on abridgements and compilations to manage the store of knowledge. Different formats - like epitome, excerpt, florilegium, anthology, gnomologion - flourished from the classical period onward. This collection looks at the changing socioliterary conditions that created a need for these accessible formats, and investigates the literary and learning mechanisms that were deployed to create condensed texts, across generic and thematic boundaries. In 26 studies, these processes are described and analysed in different fields of literature and specialist knowledge. |