Ancient Weeds - Contours of Popular and Tr...

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This book blurs the line between high and low culture throughout literary history. The common story in literary studies is that the emergence of popular and junk literature is related to the emergence of modern society due to the rise of literacy and the shortening of workdays. Ancient Weeds upends this misconception by demonstrating that antiquity had its fair share of literary pieces that fit the definition of popular, trivial, and junk literature. The authors analyze artifacts such as the ancient Egyptian Turin Papyrus, ancient love novels, Christian hagiographies and passion plays, lives of Jesus and Marian hymns, Old Norse tales and lying sagas, and Spanish blind romances. Through numerous excerpts, it becomes clear that the line between junk and high literature is thinner than it seems. They reveal how seemingly low themes such as sex and violence often overlap with the themes of high literature. In many cases, low literature is more imaginative and subversive than canonical texts, and bizarreness and non-conformity do not necessarily equate to the ephemerality of a work. As Ancient Weeds shows, thousands of years after it was written, low literature can still be a great source of entertainment today.

Über den Autor

Sylva Fischerová is associate professor of classics at Charles University. In addition to her academic work, she is also a translator, novelist, and poet. In 2018 she was named the first official City Poet of Prague. Jiří Starý is assistant professor of Germanic studies at Charles University, where he focuses on Old Norse culture and linguistics, as well as German and modern philosophy.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9788024654720
ISBN-10:	8024654725
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fischerová, Sylva Starý, Jirí Ebková, Katerina Hauner, Andrew Esparza, Daniel Abdallaová, Nada
Hersteller:	Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 165 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Sylva Fischerová (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.05.2025
Gewicht:	0,576 kg