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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biraud, Michèle, editor.

Zucker, Arnaud, editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 424.

Mnemosyne. Supplements ; volume 424

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Alciphron. Epistularum libri IV.

Alciphron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

In ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’, Michèle 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. The 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:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Structural Perspectives

On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters / Émeline Marquis

Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron / A.D. Morrison

Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites / Emilia A. Barbiero

Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects / Michèle Biraud

Cultural Issues and Backgrounds

Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythological References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters / A. Sophie Schoess

Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters by Alciphron / Onofrio Vox

The Sea of Alciphron / Giuseppe Zanetto

Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture / Melissa Funke

Generic Tensions and Innovations

Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatic Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron / Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo

Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron / Owen Hodkinson

Laus vitae rusticae: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation in the Letters of Alciphron / Anna Tiziana Drago

Close Encounters with the hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4 / Yvonne Rösch

Back Matter

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-38338-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004383388 DOI