Defining Greek Narrative /

Defining Greek Narrative / / Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748680108','ISBN:9780748680115']);Examines what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative traditionThe 'Classic' narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxono...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Cairns, Douglas,
Scodel, Ruth,
MitwirkendeR:
Athanassaki, Lucia,
Cairns, Douglas,
Cook, Erwin,
Easterling, P. E.,
Hau, Lisa Irene,
Haubold, Johannes,
Hunter, Richard,
Jong, Irene J. F. de,
Kelly, Adrian,
Morgan, J. R.,
Morrison, A. D.,
Nünlist, René,
Pausch, Dennis,
Purves, Alex,
Scodel, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2014
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations 10 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 1.12 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

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