Defining Greek narrative. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Douglas Cairns and Ruth Scodel.
• Editors: Cairns, Douglas L; Scodel, Ruth
• Contents: 1 INTRODUCTION; PART I DEFINING THE GREEK TRADITION; 2 BEYOND AUERBACH: HOMERIC NARRATIVE AND THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH; 3 HOMERIC BATTLE NARRATIVE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST; 4 NARRATIVE FOCUS AND ELUSIVE THOUGHT IN HOMER; 5 STRUCTURE AS INTERPRETATION IN THE HOMERIC ODYSSEY; PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEK TRADITION; 6 EXEMPLARITY AND NARRATIVE IN THE GREEK TRADITION; 7 'WHERE DO I BEGIN?': AN ODYSSEAN NARRATIVE STRATEGY AND ITS AFTERLIFE; 8 SOME ANCIENT VIEWS ON NARRATIVE, ITS STRUCTURE AND WORKING; 9 WHO, SAPPHO? 10 the creative impact of the occasion: pindar's songs for the emmenids and horace's odes 1.2 and 4.211 narrative on the greek tragic stage; 12 stock situations, topoi and the greekness of greek historiography; 13 heliodorus the hellene; part iii beyond greece; 14 livy reading polybius: adapting greek narrative to roman history; 15 pamela and plato: ancient and modern epistolary narratives; 16 the anonymous traveller in european literature: a greek meme?; bibliography; index.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages)
• Subjects: 880.9001; History -- Ancient -- General; Greek literature -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Rhetoric, Ancient; Greek literature -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical; HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece; Greek literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Rhetoric, Ancient; Griechisch; Literatur; Erzähltechnik; Rhetorik; Classical texts; Griechenland; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748680115
• Related ISBNs: 074868011X; 9780748680108; 0748680101
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-370) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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