Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Narratology and Interpretation

The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

Edited by: Jonas Grethlein and Antonios Rengakos

Volume 4 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110214536

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The categories of classical narratology have been successfully applied to ancient texts in the last two decades, but in the meantime narratological theory has moved on. In accordance with these developments, Narratology and Interpretation draws out the subtler possibilities of narratological analysis for the interpretation of ancient texts. The contributions explore the heuristic fruitfulness of various narratological categories and show that, in combination with other approaches such as studies in deixis, performance studies and reader-response theory, narratology can help to elucidate the content of narrative form. Besides exploring new theoretical avenues and offering exemplary readings of ancient epic, lyric, tragedy and historiography, the volume also investigates ancient predecessors of narratology.

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Jonas Grethlein , Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; Antonios Rengakos, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Ancient Predecessors of Narratology
The Theory and Practice of Narrative in Plato Stephen Halliwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The Trojan Oration of Dio Chrysostom and Ancient Homeric Criticism Richard Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Narratological Concepts in Greek Scholia René Nünlist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
II. Narratology – New Concepts
Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature Irene Jong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Homer, Odysseus, and the Narratology of Performance Egbert J. Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Speech Act Types, Conversational Exchange, and the Speech Representational Spectrum in Homer Deborah Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart? Jonas Grethlein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
III. Narratology and the Interpretation of Epic and Lyric Poetry
Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra άλοχος μυηστή έμήσατο Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey Marios Skempis and Ioannis Ziogas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Narratology, Deixis, and the Performance of Choral Lyric. On Pindar’s First Pythian Ode Lucia Athanassaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti-)Homeric Narrator: Time and Space in the Argonautica Georg Danek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
‘Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion Evina Sistakou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Aeneid 5.362 – 484: Time, Epic and the Analeptic Gauntlets Theodore D. Papanghelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
IV. Narratology and the Interpretation of Tragedy
Sophocles and the Narratology of Drama Francis Dunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Layered Stories in Aeschylus’ Persians Marianne Hopman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Narrative Technique in the Parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Seth L. Schein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Knowing a Story’s End: Future Reflexive in the Tragic Narrative of the Argive Expedition Against Thebes Anna A. Lamari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy Ruth Scodel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
V. Narratology and the Interpretation of Historiography
Names and Narrative Techniques in Xenophon’s Anabasis Christos C. Tsagalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
The Perils of Expectations: Perceptions, Suspense and Surprise in Polybius’ Histories Nikos Miltsios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Seeing through Caesar’s Eyes: Focalisation and Interpretation Christopher Pelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
History beyond Literature: Interpreting the ‘Internally Focalized’ Narrative in Livy’s Ab urbe condita Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
Fame’s Narratives. Epic and Historiography Philip Hardie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 630
Keywords: Narratology; Greek Literature; Latin Literature

eBook

Published: August 17, 2009
ISBN: 9783110214536

Hardcover

Published: August 19, 2009
ISBN: 9783110214529

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110482362