The gatekeeper : : narrative voice in Plato's dialogues / / by Margalit Finkelberg.

• Superior document: Brill's Plato studies series, volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Finkelberg, Margalit,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 pages).

In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to such topics as narrative levels, focalization, narrat...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The Dialogues
• The Explicit Narrator: Narrated Dialogues
• The Implicit Narrator: Dramatic Dialogues
• The Explicit and the Implicit Narrator Combined: Mixed Dialogues
• The Interpretation
• Plato’s Experiments with Narrative Voice
• The Limits of Authority
• The Narrator and the Author
• Back Matter
• Bibliography.