The Letters of Alciphron
A Unified Literary Work?
Published on 13. December 2018
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-90-04-38335-7 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38335-7 (9789004383357)
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Michele Biraud, Ph.D. (1987), Sorbonne-Paris IV University, is Professor of Greek Linguistics and Poetics at University Cote d'Azur and member of BCL (CNRS). She has published books about Determiners, Interjections, and papers concerning stress-based rhythm in Imperial Greek prose.
Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Cote d'Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.
Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Cote d'Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.
Content
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Structural Perspectives
1 On the Structure of Alciphron's Letters
?Emeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron
?Andrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron's Letters of Parasites
?Emilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects
?Michele Biraud
Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
5 Alciphron's Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron's Letters
?Sophie Schoess
6 Women's Voices: Four or Five Women's Letters in Alciphron
?Onofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron
?Giuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron's Use of Visual Culture
?Melissa Funke
Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron
?Rafael J. Galle Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron's Letters
?Owen Hodkinson
11 'Laus vitae rusticae': Conventionality, Imitation, Variation
?Tiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron's Book 4
?Yvonne Roesch
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Index Locorum
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Structural Perspectives
1 On the Structure of Alciphron's Letters
?Emeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron
?Andrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron's Letters of Parasites
?Emilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects
?Michele Biraud
Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
5 Alciphron's Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron's Letters
?Sophie Schoess
6 Women's Voices: Four or Five Women's Letters in Alciphron
?Onofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron
?Giuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron's Use of Visual Culture
?Melissa Funke
Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron
?Rafael J. Galle Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron's Letters
?Owen Hodkinson
11 'Laus vitae rusticae': Conventionality, Imitation, Variation
?Tiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron's Book 4
?Yvonne Roesch
Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Index Locorum