Defining Greek Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780748680108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 392 str.

Douglas Cairns; Ruth Scodel

Opis

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 two 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?

Spis treści

Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction, Ruth Scodel; Section 1: Defining the Greek Tradition; 2. Beyond Auerbach: The Poetics of Visualisation in the Gilgamesh Epic and Homer, Johannes Haubold; 3. Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East, Adrian Kelly; 4. Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homer, Ruth Scodel; 5. Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey, Erwin Cook; Section 2: the Development of the Greek Tradition; 6. Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition, Douglas Cairns; 7. ‘Where do I begin?’: An Odyssean Narrative Strategy and its Afterlife, Richard Hunter; 8. Greek Scholia on Plot, René Nünlist; 9. Who, Sappho? Alex Purves; 10. Greek Occasions, Greek Sung Narratives, Lucia Athanassaki; 11. Narrative on the Tragic Stage, P. E. Easterling; 12. Stock Situations, Topoi, and the Greekness of Greek Historiography, Lisa Hau; 13. Helidorus the Hellene; J. R. Morgan; Section 3: Beyond Greece; 14. Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History, Dennis Pausch; 15. Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives, A. D. Morrison; 16. The Anonymous Traveller: Greek Heritage or Narrative Universal? Irene de Jong.