Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond : : Towards a Poetics of Enumeration /

Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond : : Towards a Poetics of Enumeration / / ed. by Rebecca Laemmle, Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle, Katharina Wesselmann.

Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Contzen, Eva von,
Delattre, Charles,
Gordon, Richard,
Haubold, Johannes,
Höschele, Regina,
Kyriakidis, Stratis,
Laemmle, Cédric Scheidegger,
Laemmle, Rebecca,
Mainberger, Sabine,
Reitz, Christiane,
Ruffell, Isabel,
Sammons, Benjamin,
Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric,
Thomas, Oliver,
Tribulato, Olga,
Visser, Edzard,
Wasserman, Nathan,
Wesselmann, Katharina,
HerausgeberIn:
Laemmle, Rebecca,
Scheidegger Laemmle, Cédric,
Wesselmann, Katharina,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 107
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 437 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: Lists, Catalogues etc. pp
  • Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Lists and Catalogues
  • Musing about a Table of Contents. Some Theoretical Questions Concerning Lists and Catalogues
  • Theorising Lists in Literature: Towards a Listology
  • Part II: The Cultural Poetics of Enumeration: Contexts, Materiality, Organisation
  • Lists and Chains: Enumeration in Akkadian Literary Texts. With an appendix on this Device in Borges and Hughes
  • Textual Webs: How to Read Mythographic Lists
  • The Performativity of Lists in Vernacular Curse-Practice under the Roman Empire
  • Powers of Suggestion of Powers: Attribute- Lists in Greek Hymns
  • (En)listing the Good Authors: The Defence of Greek Linguistic Variety in the Antiatticist Lexicon
  • Part III: The Poetics of the Epic Catalogue
  • The Catalogue in Early Greek Epic
  • Catalogues in Greek and Akkadian Epic: A Comparative Approach
  • Reliability and Evasiveness in Epic Catalogues
  • Looking Backwards to Posterity: Catalogues of Ancestry from Homer to Ovid
  • Homeric Heroes Speaking in Lists: Comical Characterisation through Catalogues
  • Part IV: Beyond the Epic Catalogue: Literary Appropriations of Lists and Catalogues
  • Five Times Seven: Cataloguing the Seven against Thebes in Four Greek Tragedies
  • The Aesthetics of the Comic List
  • Cataloguing Contemporaries: Ovid Ex Ponto 4.16 in Context
  • Cataloguing Statues: Christodoros’ Ekphrasis of the Baths of Zeuxippos
  • List of Contributors
  • General Index General Index
  • Index of Ancient Passages Discussed

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