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9788024654720: Ancient Weeds: Contours of Popular and Trash Literature in Ancient and Medieval Times
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ISBN 10: 8024654725 ISBN 13: 9788024654720
Editorial: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2025

Sinopsis

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.

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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.

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Editorial
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
8024654725
ISBN 13 
9788024654720
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
544
Editor
Fischerová Sylva, Starý Jirí
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