Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe

by Valeria Finucci

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This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies-in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to retrace generational fantasies and discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822326442

ISBN13:9780822326441

Release Date:March 2001

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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