Defining Greek Narrative by Cairns, Douglas

Defining Greek Narrative (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780748680108)

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Defining Greek Narrative by Cairns, Douglas

Defining Greek Narrative

$160.00
Defining Greek Narrative by Cairns, Douglas

Defining Greek Narrative

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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The 'Classic' narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxonomy for describing narratives. More recently, 'new narratologies' have begun linking the formal characteristics of narrative to their historical and ideological contexts. This volume seeks such a rethinking for Greek literature. It has 2 closely related objectives: to define what is characteristically Greek in Greek narratives of different periods and genres, and to see how narrative techniques and concerns develop over time.
The 15 distinguished contributors explore questions such as: how is Homeric epic like and unlike Gilgamesh and the Hebrew Bible? What do Greek historians consistently fail to tell us, having learned from the tradition what to ignore? How does lyric modify narrative techniques from other genres?
This study will appeal to students and scholars of classics as well comparative literature and literary theory



Author: Douglas Cairns
ISBN-10: 0748680101
ISBN-13: 9780748680108
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/24/2014
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30d
By Douglas Cairns
By Douglas Cairns
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Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Greek literature, society and thought, especially the emotions. He is the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (Francis Cairns, 2010), and Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, 1993). He is the series editor for our Edinburgh Leventis Studies series and a co-editor of three edited collections with EUP.

Ruth Scodel is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She has written Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy (1999), Listening to Homer (2002), Epic Facework (2008), (with Anja Bettenworth) Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television, and An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (2010).

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