The letters of Alciphron : : a unified literary work? / / edited by Michele Biraud, Arnaud Zucker.

In ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’, Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testimony of a n...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 424.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Structural Perspectives
  • On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters / Émeline Marquis
  • Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron / A.D. Morrison
  • Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites / Emilia A. Barbiero
  • Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects / Michèle Biraud
  • Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
  • Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythological References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters / A. Sophie Schoess
  • Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters by Alciphron / Onofrio Vox
  • The Sea of Alciphron / Giuseppe Zanetto
  • Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture / Melissa Funke
  • Generic Tensions and Innovations
  • Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatic Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron / Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
  • Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron / Owen Hodkinson
  • Laus vitae rusticae: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation in the Letters of Alciphron / Anna Tiziana Drago
  • Close Encounters with the hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4 / Yvonne Rösch
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.