Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume OneIrene J. F. De Jong, René Nünlist, Angus M. Bowie This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger historical perspective on the manner in which it changes over time and is put to different uses by different authors in different genres. The first volume lays the foundation for all volumes to come, discussing the definition and boundaries of narrative, and the roles of its producer, the narrator, and recipient, the narratees. |
Contents
Introduction Narratological theory on narrators narratees and narratives IJF de Jong | 1 |
Part One Epic and elegiac poetry | 11 |
Part Two Historiography | 99 |
Part Three Choral lyric | 211 |
Part Four Drama | 233 |
Part Five Oratory | 315 |
Part Six Philosophy | 355 |
Part Seven Biography | 389 |
Part Eight Between philosophy and rhetoric | 449 |
Part Nine The novel | 477 |
Epilogue Narrators narratees and narratives in ancient Greek literature IJF de Jong and R Nünlist | 545 |
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Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature I. J. F. De Jong No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
Aeschines Aetia Agamemnon Anabasis analepses ancient Andocides anonymous Apollo Apollonius Argonautica Argonauts Athenian audience Bacchylides beginning Calasiris Callimachus characterization characters Chloe chorus Clitophon Cnemon contrast Cyrus Damis Daphnis device dialogue digressions direct speech discussion divine dramatic embedded narratives epic example explicit external fact first-person frame function gods Greek Hellenica Heracles Herodotean Herodotus Hesiod historians Homeric Homeric hymns hymns interlocutor internal narrator introduces Lucian Marincola 1997 marked messenger metanarrative motivation Muses myth narratee's narratological narrator and narratee narrator's narratorial interventions novel Odysseus omniscience oration overt passage past Persian person philosophical Pindar play Plutarch poem poet Polybius praise present primary narrator proem prologue question rative rator readers recounts reference rhetorical role Roman second-person secondary narrator sections Seven against Thebes Socrates song speak speaker story Teleutias tell Thucydides tion tive told victory odes Xenophon Xiph Zeus