Grethlein / Rengakos Narratology and Interpretation

The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021453-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 637 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to elucidate the content of narrative form. Besides exploring new theoretical avenues and offering exemplary readings of ancient epic, lyric, tragedy and historiography, the volume also investigates ancient predecessors of narratology.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grethlein, Jonas

Rengakos, Antonios

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;9
4;The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato;23
5;The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism;51
6;Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia;71
7;Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature;95
8;Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance;125
9;Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer;145
10;Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart?;161
11;Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ...... µ..st. .µ.sat.;185
12;Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey;221
13;Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar’s First Pythian Ode;249
14;Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica;283
15;‘Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion;301
16;Aeneid 5.362 – 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets;329
17;Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama;345
18;Layered Stories in Aeschylus’ Persians;365
19;Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon;385
20;Knowing a Story’s End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes;407
21;Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy;429
22;Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon’s Anabasis;459
23;The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius’;489
24;Seeing through Caesar’s Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation;515
25;History beyond Literature: Interpreting the ‘Internally Focalized’ Narrative in Livy’s Ab urbe condita;535
26;Fame’s Narratives. Epic and Historiography;563
27;Backmatter;581

Über Autor(innen)

Jonas Grethlein, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Antonios Rengakos, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.