Ebook: Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature

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 co. Read more... Ancient predecessors of narratology. The theory and practice of narrative in Plato / Stephen Halliwell -- The Trojan oration of Dio Chrysostom and ancient Homeric criticism / Richard Hunter -- Narratological concepts in Greek scholia / Rene Nunlist -- Narratology : new concepts. Metalepsis in ancient Greek literature / Irene de Jong -- Homer, Odysseus, and the narratology of performance / Egbert J. Bakker -- Speech act types, conversational exchange, and the speech representational spectrum in Homer / Deborah Beck -- Philosophical and structuralist narratologies : worlds apart? / Jonas Grethlein -- Narratology and the interpretation of epic and lyric poetry. Chance or design? Language and plot management in the Odyssey / Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos -- Arete's words : etymology, ehoie-poetry and gendered narrative in the Odyssey / Marios Skempis, Ioannis Ziogas -- Narratology, Deixis, and the performance of choral lyric : on Pindar's First Pythian ode / Lucia Athanassaki -- Apollonius Rhodius as an (anti- )Homeric narrator : time and space in the Argonautica / Georg Danek -- 'Snapshots' of myth : the notion of time in Hellenistic Epyllion / Evina Sistakou -- Aeneid 5.362-484 : time, epic and the analeptic gauntlets / Theodore D. Papanghelis -- Narratology and the interpretation of tragedy. Sophocles and the narratology of drama / Francis Dunn -- Layered stories in Aeschylus' Persians / Marianne Hopman -- Narrative technique in the Parados of Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Seth L. Schein -- Knowing a story's end : future reflexive in the tragic narrative of the Argive expedition against Thebes / Anna A. Lamari -- Ignorant narrators in Greek tragedy / Ruth Scodel -- Narratology and the interpretation of historiography. Names and narrative techniques in Xenophon's Anabasis / Christo C. Tsagalis -- The perils of expectations : perceptions, suspense and surprise in Polybius' Histories / Nikos Miltsios -- Seeing through Caesar's eyes : focalisation and interpretation / Christopher Pelling -- History beyond literature : interpreting the 'internally focalized' narrative in Livy's Ab urbe condia / Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni -- Fame's narratives : epic and historiography / Philip Hardi