Defining Greek narrative
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Defining Greek narrative
（Edinburgh Leventis studies, 7）
Edinburgh University Press, c2014
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-370) and index
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Description
This book examines what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative tradition. This is the 'Classic' narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxonomy for describing narratives. More recently, 'new narratologies' have begun linking the formal characteristics of narrative to their historical and ideological contexts. This volume attempts such a rethinking for Greek literature. It has two closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time. The 15 distinguished contributors explore questions such as: How is Homeric epic like and unlike Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible? What do Greek historians consistently fail to tell us, having learned from the tradition what to ignore? How does lyric modify narrative techniques from other genres?
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction, Ruth Scodel
- Part I: Defining the Greek Tradition
- 2. Beyond Auerbach: Homeric Narrative and the Epic of Gilgamesh, Johannes Haubold
- 3. Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East, Adrian Kelly
- 4. Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homerm, Ruth Scodel
- 5. Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey, Erwin Cook
- Part II: The Development of the Greek Tradition
- 6. Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition, Douglas Cairns
- 7. 'Where do I begin?': An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife, Richard Hunter
- 8. Some Ancient Views on Narrative, its Structure and Working, Rene Nunlist
- 9. Who, Sappho?, Alex Purves
- 10. The Creative Impact of the Occasion: Pindar's Songs for the Emmenids and Horace's Odes 1.2 and 4.2, Lucia Athanassaki
- 11. Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage, P.E. Easterling
- 12. Stock Situations, Topoi and the Greekness of Greek Historiography, Lisa Hau
- 13. Heliodorus the Hellene, J. R. Morgan
- Part III: Beyond Greece
- 14. Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History, Dennis Pausch
- 15. Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives, A. D. Morrison
- 16. The Anonymous Traveller in European Literature: A Greek Meme?, Irene J. F. de Jong
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index.
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