Defining Greek Narrative
1st Edition
Published on 24. March 2014
393 pages
978-0-7486-8011-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 2 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?This study will appeal to students and scholars of classics as well comparative literature and literary theory
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Douglas Cairns | Ruth Scodel
Defining Greek Narrative
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03/2014
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Content
- Intro
- 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 4.2
- 11 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
