Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece: Under the Spell of Stories 1st Edition

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• ISBN 10: 0192587633
• ISBN 13: 9780192587633
• Author: Jonas Grethlein, Luuk Huitink, Aldo Tagliabue

Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches, opening up new vistas within the study of classical literature while ably deploying the ancient material to demonstrate the value of a historical perspective for cognitive studies. Concepts such as immersion and embodiment help to establish a more comprehensive understanding of ancient narrative and ancient reading habits, as manifested in Greek criticism and rhetorical theory. The thirteen chapters presented here tackle a broad range of narrative genres, broadly understood: besides epic, historiography, and the novel, tragedy and early Christian texts are also considered alongside non-literary media, such as dance and sculpture. Authored by international specialists in the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece, each chapter utilizes a rich set of theoretical and methodological tools drawn from cognitive studies, phenomenology, and linguistics that place them at the vanguard of a strong new current in classical scholarship and literary criticism more generally.

Table of contents:

Part I: Ancient Narrative
1. Narrative Immersion: Some Linguistic and Narratological Aspects, Rutger J. Allan
2. The Allure of Narrative in Greek Lyric Poetry, David Fearn
3. Attending to Tragic Messenger Speeches, Felix Budelmann and Evert van Emde Boas
4. Pathos with a Point: Reflections on ‘Sensationalist’ Narratives of Violence in Hellenistic Historiography in the Light of 21st-Century Historiography, Lisa I. Hau
5. Experiencing the Church in the Book of Visions of the Shepherd of Hermas, Aldo Tagliabue
Part II: Ancient Criticism
6. World and Words: The Limits to Mimesis and Immersion in Heliodorus’ Ethiopica, Jonas Grethlein
7. Longinus on Ecstasy: Author, Audience, and Text, Casper C. De Jonge
8. Rough Reading: Tangible Language in Dionysius’ Criticism of Homer, Alex Purves
9. Enargeia and Bodily Mimesis, Luuk Huitink
10. Asyndeton, Immersion, and Hypokrisis in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Alessandro Vatri
Part III: Media and Context
11. Dancing the War Report in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, Laura Gianvittorio
12. Narrative, Experience, and the Image: Incomplete Copies in Imperial Age Sculpture, Nikolaus Dietrich
13. Lived Aesthetics and the Inner Narrative, Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

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