Lists and catalogues in ancient literature and beyond : towards a poetics of enumeration / edited by Rebecca Laemmle, Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle and Katharina Wesselmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laemmle, Rebecca, editor.

Lämmle, Cédric Scheidegger, editor.

Wesselmann, Katharina, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 107.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; volume 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Ancient--History and criticism.

Literature, Ancient.

Lists in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: Lists, Catalogues etc. pp

Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Lists and Catalogues

Musing about a Table of Contents. Some Theoretical Questions Concerning Lists and Catalogues

Theorising Lists in Literature: Towards a Listology

Part II: The Cultural Poetics of Enumeration: Contexts, Materiality, Organisation

Lists and Chains: Enumeration in Akkadian Literary Texts. With an appendix on this Device in Borges and Hughes

Textual Webs: How to Read Mythographic Lists

The Performativity of Lists in Vernacular Curse-Practice under the Roman Empire

Powers of Suggestion of Powers: Attribute- Lists in Greek Hymns

(En)listing the Good Authors: The Defence of Greek Linguistic Variety in the Antiatticist Lexicon

Part III: The Poetics of the Epic Catalogue

The Catalogue in Early Greek Epic

Catalogues in Greek and Akkadian Epic: A Comparative Approach

Reliability and Evasiveness in Epic Catalogues

Looking Backwards to Posterity: Catalogues of Ancestry from Homer to Ovid

Homeric Heroes Speaking in Lists: Comical Characterisation through Catalogues

Part IV: Beyond the Epic Catalogue: Literary Appropriations of Lists and Catalogues

Five Times Seven: Cataloguing the Seven against Thebes in Four Greek Tragedies

The Aesthetics of the Comic List

Cataloguing Contemporaries: Ovid Ex Ponto 4.16 in Context

Cataloguing Statues: Christodoros' Ekphrasis of the Baths of Zeuxippos

List of Contributors

General Index General Index

Index of Ancient Passages Discussed.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Laemmle, Rebecca Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond : Towards a Poetics of Enumeration

ISBN:

9783110712230

3110712237

Publisher Number:

99987196491

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