The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?

Author:   Michèle Biraud ,  Arnaud Zucker
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   424
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9789004383357


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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In ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’, Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testimony of a nostalgia for the Athens of Menander's time. The aim is to show the unity of a literary project through studies on the careful arrangement of each book (overall organization, coherent reappropriation of a culture, innovations in generic hybridization) and various elements of cohesion between the four books. For this purpose, were used as tools codicological criticism, stylistic and rhetorical examination, analysis of prosody, study of thematic treatments, uses of onomastics.

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Author:   Michèle Biraud ,  Arnaud Zucker
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   424
Weight:   0.606kg
ISBN:  

9789004383357


ISBN 10:   9004383352
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Notes on Contributors Part 1 Structural Perspectives 1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters  Émeline Marquis 2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron  Andrew Morrison 3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites  Emilia Barbiero 4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects  Michèle Biraud Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds 5 Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters  Sophie Schoess 6 Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters in Alciphron  Onofrio Vox 7 The Sea of Alciphron  Giuseppe Zanetto 8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture  Melissa Funke Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations 9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron  Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo 10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron’s Letters  Owen Hodkinson 11 ‘Laus vitae rusticae’: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation  Tiziana Drago 12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4  Yvonne Rösch Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum

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Michèle Biraud, Ph.D. (1987), Sorbonne-Paris IV University, is Professor of Greek Linguistics and Poetics at University Cote d’Azur and member of BCL (CNRS). She has published books about Determiners, Interjections, and papers concerning stress-based rhythm in Imperial Greek prose. Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Côte d’Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.

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