Prolepsis in ancient Greek narrative : definitions, forms and effects / edited by Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Schomber, Saskia, editor.

Tagliabue, Aldo Carlo Fernando, 1982- editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Conference Name:

Virtual Prolepses: Readerly Uncertainty and Other Narrative Effects in Greek Literature (Conference) (2022 : Rauischholzhausen, Germany), creator.

Series:

Language of classical literature ; v. 40.

The language of classical literature ; volume 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Congresses.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 259 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Contents:

Introduction : narrating ahead / Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue

Additive anachronies in Homer / Alexander C. Loney

Dreams and oracles as riddling prolepses in Herodotus' Histories / Irene J.F. de Jong

Proleptic moves in Xenophon's narrative of Manitnea (Hell. 7.5) : the fog of war / Luuk Huitink

Backwards and forwards in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus / Evert van Emde Boas

Analepsis, prolepsis, and eschatology in 2 Maccabees : that was now, this is then / R. Gillian Glass

Prolepsis and readerly (un)certainty in Herodian's History of the empire after Marcus : the paradox of anticipation / Mario Baumann

Unfulfilled prolepses in the ancient Greek novels : virtual worlds, time warps, and closure / Benedek Kruchió

The inset stories of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe as possible and counterfactual prolepses / Aldo Tagliabue

The spatial dimension of prolepsis : mise-en-abîme and the dynamics of plot in Heliodorus' Aethiopica / Jonas Grethlein

Reading Phyllis as a prolepsis in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen : ghost stories and virtual narratives / Saskia Schomber.

Notes:

Papers from the workshop Virtual Prolepses, held June 8-11, 2022 at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, conference venue of Justus Liebig University Giessen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Virtual Prolepses: Readerly Uncertainty and Other Narrative Effects in Greek Literature (Conference) (2022 : Prolepsis in ancient Greek narrative

ISBN:

9789004715530

9004715533

Publisher Number:

40032611209

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