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

"‎Contents" -- "‎Introduction" -- "‎Part 1. The Narrator-Author’s Engagement with His Predecessors and with the Tradition of Epic Storytelling" -- "‎Chapter 1. The First Proem: The Narrator’s Sources of Inspiration" -- "‎1.1. A Shifti...

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VerfasserIn: Geisz, Camille (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston : BRILL , 2017
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology Ser
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Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als: A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca : Storytelling in Late Antique Epic
E-Book-Pakete:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Zusammenfassung:"‎Contents" -- "‎Introduction" -- "‎Part 1. The Narrator-Author’s Engagement with His Predecessors and with the Tradition of Epic Storytelling" -- "‎Chapter 1. The First Proem: The Narrator’s Sources of Inspiration" -- "‎1.1. A Shifting Source of Inspiration" -- "‎1.2. Subject Matter and Narrative persona" -- "‎1.3. Summary" -- "‎Chapter 2. The Second Proem: The Emergence of the Narrator’s Voice" -- "‎2.1. The Nonnian Narrator’s Appropriation of the Homeric Model as a Template" -- "‎2.2. A Template for the Telling of a New Story. The Question of the Contents: The Limits of Homeric Inspiration" -- "‎2.3. Summary" -- "‎Chapter 3. The Nonnian Narrator and the Muses" -- "‎3.1. The Addressees of the Nonnian Muse Invocations" -- "‎3.2. The Shorter Invocations: Innovations on a Well-Known Theme" -- "‎3.3. Rhetorical Questions or Muse Invocations?" -- "‎3.4. Summary" -- "‎Part 2. A Narrator-Scholar with an Innovative Approach to Epic Storytelling" -- "‎Chapter 4. The Nonnian Narrator’s Conception of Narrating: The Question of Sources" -- "‎4.1. Self-Conscious Narrating: The Reference to Sources" -- "‎4.2. Comprehensive Narrating" -- "‎4.3. Summary" -- "‎Chapter 5. Being Overt: The Nonnian Narrator’s Opinion of His Own Narrative" -- "‎5.1. The Nonnian Narrator in Space and Time" -- "‎5.2. The Narrator’s Opinion of His Own Story: A Narrator-Commentator" -- "‎5.3. The syncrisis of Book 25, 22–252: An Innovative and Assertive Narratorial Intervention" -- "‎5.4. Summary" -- "‎Part 3. A Narrator-Storyteller in Dialogue with His Audience" -- "‎Chapter 6. Direct Addresses to the Narratee: How to Involve the Narratee in the Story" -- "‎6.1. Preliminary Considerations" -- "‎6.2. Addresses from the Narrator to the Narratee in the Dionysiaca" -- "‎6.3. Analysis of the Corpus of Addresses".
"‎6.4. Summary" -- "‎Chapter 7. Indirect Addresses: How to Influence the Narratee’s Reception of the Story" -- "‎7.1. Indirect Metaleptic Devices Aimed at the Narratee" -- "‎7.2. Gnomic Utterances and Rhetorical Questions" -- "‎7.3. If-not Situations in the Dionysiaca" -- "‎Chapter 8. Comparisons and Similes" -- "‎8.1. The Use of Comparisons and Similes in Homer, Apollonius, Quintus, and Nonnus" -- "‎8.2. The Nonnian Comparisons and Similes" -- "‎8.3. Summary" -- "‎Part 4. A Narrator-Character Becoming Part of His Own Narrative" -- "‎Chapter 9. Apostrophes to Characters" -- "‎9.1. Apostrophes in Homer and Apollonius" -- "‎9.2. Addressees of the Nonnian Apostrophes" -- "‎9.3. Summary" -- "‎Chapter 10. The Transformation of the Narrator into a Dionysiac Reveller" -- "‎10.1. A Narrator at the Service of Dionysus" -- "‎10.2. The Frame of the Muse Invocations: Innovations of a Narrator-Character" -- "‎10.3. Proteus as an alter ego" -- "‎Conclusion" -- "‎Intertextuality and the Dionysiaca: Final Remarks" -- "‎Glossary" -- "‎Bibliography" -- "‎Index Locorum".
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
ISBN:9789004355347