Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 069104452X ISBN 13: 9780691044521

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

The study of closure has played a significant part in contemporary literary criticism and is implicated in many of its concerns, from psychological aspects of the search for an end in narrative to the order imposed upon a text by politics or culture. This collection is the first large- scale attempt to assess the implications of closure for the study of classical literature. Twelve new essays by an international group of scholars focus on endings in Greek and Latin literature and demonstrate the different sorts of questions these endings pose: What narrative strategies did Hellenistic novelists employ? What is the political subtext of Ovid's half-finished roman calendar? What cultural work is performed by the portrayal of a warrior's heroic end in the Iliad? Embracing a wide range of ancient authors and genres, the collection begins by closely examining critical approaches to closure, and ends with a comparative discussion of ancient and modern narrative. The extensive bibliography includes a survey of work in different fields that further illustrates the variety of approaches to closure.Each of the editors has contributed an essay to this volume. Additional contributors include Sheila Murnaghan, Ian Rutherford, Carolyn Dewald, Peta Fowler, Philip Hardie, W. R. Johnson, Alessandro Barchiesi, Massimo Fusillo, and Christopher Pelling.

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"Classical Closure covers a gratifyingly large range of Greek and Latin literature from Homer to the novel. An elegant conclusion by one of the editors, Deborah Roberts, is followed by a helpful bibliography in which the history of closure may be traced."--Times Literary Supplement

Contenuti

	Preface
	Notes on the Contributors
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Second Thoughts on Closure	3
Ch. 2	Equal Honor and Future Glory: The Plan of Zeus in the Iliad	23
Ch. 3	Odes and Ends: Closure in Greek Lyric	43
Ch. 4	Wanton Kings, Pickled Heroes, and Gnomic Founding Fathers: Strategies of Meaning at the End of Herodotus's Histories	62
Ch. 5	Ends and Means in Euripides' Heracles	83
Ch. 6	Lucretian Conclusions	112
Ch. 7	Closure in Latin Epic	139
Ch. 8	Final Exit: Propertius 4.11	163
Ch. 9	Endgames: Ovid's Metamorphoses 15 and Fasti 6	181
Ch. 10	How Novels End: Some Patterns of Closure in Ancient Narrative	209
Ch. 11	Is Death the End? Closure in Plutarch's Lives	228
Ch. 12	Afterword: Ending and Aftermath, Ancient and Modern	251
	Bibliography	275
	Index	303

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 069104452X
• ISBN 13: 9780691044521
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 311
• Redattore: Roberts Deborah H., Dunn Francis M., Fowler Don
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