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Title Submerged Literature in Ancient Greek Culture : an Introduction / edited by Giulio Colesanti and Manuela Giordano
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 229 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introductory Notes / Colesanti, Giulio ; Giordano, Manuela -- Defining the Indefinable: Greek Submerged Literature and Some Problems of Terminology / Ercolani, Andrea -- Submerged Literature in an Oral Culture / Palmisciano, Riccardo -- The Canon and Its Boundaries / Nicolai, Roberto -- Beyond the Canon: Hellenistic Scholars and Their Texts / Broggiato, Maria -- The Trojan War Myth: Rhapsodic Canon and Lyric Alternatives / Sbardella, Livio -- Local Epics and Epic Cycles: the Anomalous Case of a Submerged Genre / Lulli, Laura -- Two Cases of Submerged Monodic Lyric: Sympotic Poetry and Lullabies / Colesanti, Giulio -- Dramatic Actions from Archaic Iconographic Sources: the Domain of the Satyrikon / Palmisciano, Riccardo -- Comedy outside the Canon: from Ritual Slapstick to Hellenistic Mime / Sonnino, Maurizio -- Out of Athens. Ritual Performances, Spaces, and the Emergence of Tragedy / Giordano, Manuela -- By Way of Conclusion / Broggiato, Maria ; Colesanti, Giulio ; Ercolani, Andrea ; Giordano, Manuela ; Lulli, Laura ; Napolitano, Michele ; Nicolai, Roberto ; Palmisciano, Riccardo ; Sbardella, Livio ; Sonnino, Maurizio -- Reference List -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum Notabilium -- Index Locorum -- Contributors
Summary Illuminating the ways ancient Greek culture placed different texts at edge of transmission remains a desideratum. Intended as a new hermeneutics to study the whole range of texts that were produced for socially relevant events in ancient Greece and to investigate the dynamics behind their inclusion or exclusion from production, diffusion and transmission, this book offers fresh approaches to ancient Greek literature and cultural history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
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Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek literature
Textgeschichte
Verlorengegangenes Werk
Griechisch
Literatur
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Colesanti, Giulio, 1969- editor.
Giordano, Manuela, editor.
ISBN 3110334089
9783110334081
9783110334098
3110334097
3110390205
9783110390209