Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature /

Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature / / ed. by Martin Vöhler, Therese Fuhrer, Stavros Frangoulidis.

Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Alekou, Stella,
Balla, Chloe,
Chryssanthopoulos, Michalis,
Cordes, Lisa,
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline,
Formisano, Marco,
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Fuhrer, Therese,
Golitsis, Pantelis,
Hamilton, John T.,
Harrison, Stephen,
Kirstein, Robert,
Knape, Joachim,
Lamari, Anna,
Lüthy, Michael,
Mehltretter, Florian,
Männlein-Robert, Irmgard,
Reichlin, Susanne,
Sistakou, Evina,
Soldo, Janja,
Strauss Clay, Jenny,
Thomas, Richard F.,
Velden, Bram van der,
Vöhler, Martin,
Wessels, Antje,
HerausgeberIn:
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Fuhrer, Therese,
Vöhler, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 114
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 422 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Part I: Concepts and Aesthetics of Ambiguity
  • Modern and Ancient Concepts of Ambiguity
  • Aristotle on Ambiguity
  • Intended Ambiguity in Plato’s Phaedo
  • The Ambiguity of the Unambiguous: Figures of Death in Late Medieval Literature
  • The Modern Perspective: Ambiguity, Artistic Self-Reference, and the Autonomy of Art
  • Part II: Playing with Linguistic Ambiguity
  • Traversing No-Man’s Land
  • The Ambiguity of Wisdom: Mētis in the Odyssey
  • Borges in Alexandria? Modes of Ambiguity in Hellenistic Poetry
  • Sympotic Sexuality: The Ambiguity of Seafood in Middle Comedy (Nausicrates fr. 1 K.-A.)
  • Liber esto – Wordplay and Ambiguity in Petronius’ Satyrica
  • Part III: Ambiguous Narratives
  • Half Heroes? Ambiguity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • Underneath the Arachnean and Minervan Veil of Ambiguity: Cultural and Political Simulatio in Ovidian Ecphrasis
  • Ambigua Verba, Hidden Desire and Auctorial Intentionality in Some Ovidian Speeches (Met. 3.279−92; 7.810−23; 10.364−6, 440−1)
  • The Pleasures of Ambiguity: Aristomenes’ Tale of Socrates in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
  • Legens. Ambiguity, Syllepsis and Allegory in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
  • Part IV: Ambiguity as Argument
  • Between Conversion and Madness: Sophisticated Ambiguity in Lucian’s Nigrinus
  • Catullan Ambiguity
  • Prophetic, Poetic and Political Ambiguity in Vergil Eclogue 4
  • Vitae aut vocis ambigua: Seneca the Younger and Ambiguity
  • Who speaks? – Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Design of Cicero’s Dialogue Speakers
  • Unsettling Effects and Disconcertment — Strategies of Enacting Interpretations in Tacitusʼ Annals
  • The Latin Commentary Tradition on ‘Inclusive’ Intended Ambiguity
  • Part V: Ambiguous Receptions
  • Ambivalent Allegories: Giovan Battista Marino’s Adone (1623) between Censorship and Hermeneutic Freedom
  • Multipliers of Ambiguity: The Use of Quotations in Cavafy’s Poems Concerning the Emperor Julian
  • Seven Perspectives of Ambiguity and the Problem of Intentionality
  • List of Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index of Passages

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