Defining Greek narrative / edited by Douglas Cairns and Ruth Scodel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Douglas, Author.

Contributor:

Cairns, Douglas L., editor.

Scodel, Ruth, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 7.

Edinburgh Leventis Studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 'Classic' narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxonomy for describing narratives. More recently, 'new narratologies' have begun linking the formal characteristics of narrative to their historical and ideological contexts. This volume seeks such a rethinking for Greek literature. It has two closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time. The 15 distinguished contributors explore questions such as: How is Homeric epic like and unlike Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible? What do Greek historians consistently fail to tell us, having learned from the tradition what to ignore? How does lyric modify narrative techniques from other genres?

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1 INTRODUCTION; PART I DEFINING THE GREEK TRADITION; 2 BEYOND AUERBACH: HOMERIC NARRATIVE AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH; 3 HOMERIC BATTLE NARRATIVE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; 4 NARRATIVE FOCUS AND ELUSIVE THOUGHT IN HOMER; 5 STRUCTURE AS INTERPRETATION IN THE HOMERIC ODYSSEY; PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK TRADITION; 6 EXEMPLARITY AND NARRATIVE IN THE GREEK TRADITION; 7 'WHERE DO I BEGIN?': AN ODYSSEAN NARRATIVE STRATEGY AND ITS AFTERLIFE; 8 SOME ANCIENT VIEWS ON NARRATIVE, ITS STRUCTURE AND WORKING; 9 WHO, SAPPHO?

10 THE CREATIVE IMPACT OF THE OCCASION: PINDAR'S SONGS FOR THE EMMENIDS AND HORACE'S ODES 1.2 AND 4.211 NARRATIVE ON THE GREEK TRAGIC STAGE; 12 STOCK SITUATIONS, TOPOI AND THE GREEKNESS OF GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY; 13 HELIODORUS THE HELLENE; PART III BEYOND GREECE; 14 LIVY READING POLYBIUS: ADAPTING GREEK NARRATIVE TO ROMAN HISTORY; 15 PAMELA AND PLATO: ANCIENT AND MODERN EPISTOLARY NARRATIVES; 16 THE ANONYMOUS TRAVELLER IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE: A GREEK MEME?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748697007

0748697004

9780748680115

074868011X