The Letters of Alciphron

A Unified Literary Work?
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38335-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 424, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biraud, Michèle

Zucker, Arnaud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Structural Perspectives

1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters
Émeline 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
Michèle 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. Gallé 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 Rösch

Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Michèle 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 Côte 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.