A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca : Storytelling in Late Antique Epic

"âContents" -- "âIntroduction" -- "âPart 1. The Narrator-Authorâs Engagement with His Predecessors and with the Tradition of Epic Storytelling" -- "âChapter 1. The First Proem: The Narratorâs Sources of Inspiration" -- "â1.1. A Shifti...

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Main Author:	Geisz, Camille (Author)
Document Type:	Online Resource Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : BRILL , 2017
Series:	Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology Ser
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Summary:	"âContents" -- "âIntroduction" -- "âPart 1. The Narrator-Authorâs Engagement with His Predecessors and with the Tradition of Epic Storytelling" -- "âChapter 1. The First Proem: The Narratorâs Sources of Inspiration" -- "â1.1. A Shifting Source of Inspiration" -- "â1.2. Subject Matter and Narrative persona" -- "â1.3. Summary" -- "âChapter 2. The Second Proem: The Emergence of the Narratorâs Voice" -- "â2.1. The Nonnian Narratorâs Appropriation of the Homeric Model as a Template" -- "â2.2. A Template for the Telling of a New Story. The Question of the Contents: The Limits of Homeric Inspiration" -- "â2.3. Summary" -- "âChapter 3. The Nonnian Narrator and the Muses" -- "â3.1. The Addressees of the Nonnian Muse Invocations" -- "â3.2. The Shorter Invocations: Innovations on a Well-Known Theme" -- "â3.3. Rhetorical Questions or Muse Invocations?" -- "â3.4. Summary" -- "âPart 2. A Narrator-Scholar with an Innovative Approach to Epic Storytelling" -- "âChapter 4. The Nonnian Narratorâs Conception of Narrating: The Question of Sources" -- "â4.1. Self-Conscious Narrating: The Reference to Sources" -- "â4.2. Comprehensive Narrating" -- "â4.3. Summary" -- "âChapter 5. Being Overt: The Nonnian Narratorâs Opinion of His Own Narrative" -- "â5.1. The Nonnian Narrator in Space and Time" -- "â5.2. The Narratorâs Opinion of His Own Story: A Narrator-Commentator" -- "â5.3. The syncrisis of Book 25, 22â252: An Innovative and Assertive Narratorial Intervention" -- "â5.4. Summary" -- "âPart 3. A Narrator-Storyteller in Dialogue with His Audience" -- "âChapter 6. Direct Addresses to the Narratee: How to Involve the Narratee in the Story" -- "â6.1. Preliminary Considerations" -- "â6.2. Addresses from the Narrator to the Narratee in the Dionysiaca" -- "â6.3. Analysis of the Corpus of Addresses". "â6.4. Summary" -- "âChapter 7. Indirect Addresses: How to Influence the Narrateeâs Reception of the Story" -- "â7.1. Indirect Metaleptic Devices Aimed at the Narratee" -- "â7.2. Gnomic Utterances and Rhetorical Questions" -- "â7.3. If-not Situations in the Dionysiaca" -- "âChapter 8. Comparisons and Similes" -- "â8.1. The Use of Comparisons and Similes in Homer, Apollonius, Quintus, and Nonnus" -- "â8.2. The Nonnian Comparisons and Similes" -- "â8.3. Summary" -- "âPart 4. A Narrator-Character Becoming Part of His Own Narrative" -- "âChapter 9. Apostrophes to Characters" -- "â9.1. Apostrophes in Homer and Apollonius" -- "â9.2. Addressees of the Nonnian Apostrophes" -- "â9.3. Summary" -- "âChapter 10. The Transformation of the Narrator into a Dionysiac Reveller" -- "â10.1. A Narrator at the Service of Dionysus" -- "â10.2. The Frame of the Muse Invocations: Innovations of a Narrator-Character" -- "â10.3. Proteus as an alter ego" -- "âConclusion" -- "âIntertextuality and the Dionysiaca: Final Remarks" -- "âGlossary" -- "âBibliography" -- "âIndex Locorum".
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
ISBN:	9789004355347

A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca : Storytelling in Late Antique Epic

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