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Matrices of genre : authors, canons, and society / edited by Mary Depew & Dirk Obbink.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Center for Hellenic Studies colloquia ; 4.
- Center for Hellenic Studies colloquia ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Classical literature.
- Literature and society--Greece.
- Literature and society.
- Greece.
- Literature and society--Rome.
- Canon (Literature).
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome.
- Contents:
- Generating genres / Glenn W. Most
- Epigram and reader / Joseph W. Day
- Enacted and represented dedications / Mary Depew
- Formulas, voice, and death in Ehoie-poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos, and the Odysseian Nekuia / Ian Rutherford
- Herodotus's genre(s) / Deborah Boedeker
- From Aristophaes to meander? / Eric Csapo
- Theocritus and the "demythologizing" of poetry / Marco Fantuzzi
- Lycophron's Alexandra / Stephanie West
- Rituals in ink / Alessandro Barchiesi
- The dialectics of genre / Ineke Sluiter
- The didactic plot / Don Fowler
- Essential epic / Stephen Hinds .
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674003381
- OCLC:
- 44391491
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