Space And Time In Ancient Greek Narrative
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Author | : Alex C. Purves |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2010-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139487981 |
In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial perspective, from a godlike overview to the more focused outlook of human beings caught up in a developing plot, inspired by advances in cartography, travel, and geometry. Her analysis of the temporal and spatial dimensions of ancient narrative leads to new interpretations of important texts by Homer, Herodotus, and Xenophon, among others, showing previously unnoticed connections between epic and prose. Drawing on the methods of classical philology, narrative theory, and cultural geography, Purves recovers a poetics of spatial representation that lies at the core of the Greeks' conception of their plots.
Author | : Irene J.F. de Jong |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047422937 |
This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.
Author | : I.J.F. de Jong |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2012-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900422257X |
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions (thematic, symbolic, psychologising, or characterising).
Author | : Douglas Cairns |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2014-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 074868011X |
An examination of what is distinct, what is shared and what is universal in Greek narrative traditions of a wide range of ancient Greek literary genres.
Author | : Jenny Strauss Clay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139494651 |
Moving away from the verbal and thematic repetitions that have dominated Homeric studies and exploiting the insights of cognitive psychology, this highly innovative and accessible study focuses on the visual poetics of the Iliad as the narrative is envisioned by the poet and rendered visible. It does so through a close analysis of the often-neglected 'Battle Books'. They here emerge as a coherently visualized narrative sequence rather than as a random series of combats, and this approach reveals, for instance, the significance of Sarpedon's attack on the Achaean Wall and Patroclus' path to destruction. In addition, Professor Strauss Clay suggests new ways of approaching ancient narratives: not only with one's ear, but also with one's eyes. She further argues that the loci system of mnemonics, usually attributed to Simonides, is already fully exploited by the Iliad poet to keep track of his cast of characters and to organize his narrative.
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108481477 |
A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2009-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110214539 |
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.
Author | : Kate Gilhuly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139992716 |
This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.
Author | : Christos Tsagalis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Space and time in literature |
ISBN | : 9780674067110 |
Exploring the functions of space in the Iliad, Christos Tsagalis shows how active spatial representation in similes and descriptive passages influences characterization and narrative action. He also analyzes Homeric modes of visual memory, implicit knowledge, and mnemonic formats in order to better understand descriptive and ekphrastic passages
Author | : Greta Hawes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198744773 |
Polybius boldly declared that 'now that all places have become accessible by land or sea, it is no longer appropriate to use poets and writers of myth as witnesses of the unknown' (4.40.2). And yet, in reality, the significance of myth did not diminish as the borders of the known world expanded. Storytelling was always an inextricable part of how the ancient Greeks understood their environment; mythic maps existed alongside new, more concrete, methods of charting the contours of the earth. Specific landscape features acted as repositories of myth and spurred their retelling; myths, in turn, shaped and gave sense to natural and built environments, and were crucial to the conceptual resonances of places both unknown and known. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. The diverse range of approaches and topics highlights in particular the plurality and pervasiveness of such interactions. The collection as a whole sheds new light on the central importance of storytelling in Greek conceptions of space.