Narratology and interpretation : the content of narrative form in ancient literature / edited by Jonas Grethlein and Antonios Rengakos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-

Rengakos, Antonios.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in classics, supplementary volumes ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric)--History.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (640 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York City : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to elucidate the content of narrative form. Besides exploring new theoretical avenues and offering exemplary readings of ancient epic, lyric, tragedy and historiography, the volume also investigates ancient predecessors of narratology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Ancient Predecessors of Narratology

The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato

The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism

Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia

II. Narratology - New Concepts

Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature

Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance

Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer

Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies - Worlds Apart?

III. Narratology and the Interpretation of Epic and Lyric Poetry

Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra άλοχος μυηστή έμήσατο

Arete's Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey

Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar's First Pythian Ode

Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica

'Snapshots' of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion

Aeneid 5.362 - 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets

IV. Narratology and the Interpretation of Tragedy

Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama

Layered Stories in Aeschylus' Persians

Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

Knowing a Story's End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes

Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy

V. Narratology and the Interpretation of Historiography

Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon's Anabasis

The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius' Histories

Seeing through Caesar's Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation

History beyond Literature: Interpreting the 'Internally Focalized' Narrative in Livy's Ab urbe condita

Fame's Narratives. Epic and Historiography

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612295942

9781282295940

1282295942

9783110214536

3110214539

OCLC:

503049224