The letters of Alciphron : a unified literary work? / edited by Michèle Biraud, Arnaud Zucker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biraud, Michèle, editor.

Zucker, Arnaud, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 424.

Mnemosyne supplements. Late antique literature ; volume 424

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alciphron. Epistularum libri IV.

Alciphron.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 275 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In `The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?', Michele Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testimony of a nostalgia for the Athens of Menander's time.0The aim is to show the unity of a literary project through studies on the careful arrangement of each book (overall organization, coherent reappropriation of a culture, innovations in generic hybridization) and various elements of cohesion between the four books. For this purpose, were used as tools codicological criticism, stylistic and rhetorical examination, analysis of prosody, study of thematic treatments, uses of onomastics.

Contents:

Preface / Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker

Part 1. Structural perspectives. Chapter 1. On the structure of Alciphron's Letters / Émeline Marquis

Chapter 2. Order and disorder in the Letters of Alciphron / A.D. Morrison

Chapter 3. Time to eat : chronological connections in Alciphron's Letters of parasites / Emilia A. Barbiero

Chapter 4. Echoes of stress-based rhythms in the Letters of fishermen : poetic, rhetoric and structural aspects / Michèle Biraud

Part 2. Cultural issues and backgrounds. Chapter 5. Alciphron's reception of oral and literary traditions : mythological references and comparisons in Alciphron's Letters / Sophie Schoess

Chapter 6. Women's voices : four or five women's letters by Alciphron / Onofrio Vox

Chapter 7. The sea of Alciphron / Giuseppe Zanetto

Chapter 8. Nostalgic authority : Alciphron's use of visual culture / Melissa Funke

Part 3. Generic tensions and innovations. Chapter 9. Different forms of generic tension between epistolary precepts and progymnasmatic rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron / Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo

Chapter 10. Typecast? Speaking names in Alciphron / Owen Hodkinson

Chapter 11. Laus vitae rusticae : conventionality, imitation, variation in the Letters of Alciphron / Anna Tiziana Drago

Chapter 12. Close encounters with the hetaira : reading Alciphron's Book 4 / Yvonne Rösch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Letters of Alciphron

ISBN:

9789004383357

9004383352

OCLC:

1048937918