Erzähler und Figur in Interaktion: Metalepsen in Homers ›Ilias‹

Leonie von Alvensleben

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Erzähler und Figur in Interaktion

Metalepsen in Homers ›Ilias‹

Interactions Between Narrator and Character: Metalepsis in Homer’s “Iliad”

Leonie von Alvensleben

Volume 139 in the series Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791051

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Time and again in Homer's Iliad there are implicit interactions between the narrator and his characters. This monograph examines these interactions as 'metalepses' (transgressions between narrative levels), which lend the epic an immanent dialogicality. Numerous individual analyses show how metalepses decisively shape the Homeric narrative style and how they expand the scope of interpretation of entire passages. It becomes clear that metaleptic interactivity creates an apparent immediacy and closeness between the narrator and his characters (especially Achilles). The narrator and characters refer to each other in their speeches in very different ways, for example when the narrator contradicts a character or a character takes up and modifies an image used by the narrator. The Homeric characters thus appear less as textual products (as 'products' of the narrator) than as real people with whom the narrator appears to enter into direct dialogue, indeed whom he has actually created as interlocutors.

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Leonie von Alvensleben, Göttingen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Inhaltsverzeichnis Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Dank Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Einleitung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Der ‚philachilleische‘ Erzähler: Metaleptische Kommunikation mit Achill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 Weitere Formen von Erzähler-Figuren-Interaktion in der Ilias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
4 Weitere Metalepsenformen in der Ilias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
5 Fazit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the fields of classical philology, literary studies
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 289
Illustrations
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Homer; Iliad; narratology; epic poetry

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110791051

Hardcover

Published: September 20, 2022
ISBN: 9783110790641