Intratextuality Greek and Roman Textual Relations

by Sharrock, Alison; Morales, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780199240937
• ISBN10: 0199240930
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book seeks to examine the various ways in which ancient authors and modern readers negotiate the interrelations of whole and part, and construct and respond to perceived designs in the world of text. The contributors develop the well-established reading strategies of intertextuality, narratology, and various forms of reader-response criticism, while appreciating and questioning the aesthetic quality of the texts, which range from those of Homer and Plato to Catullus and Cicero.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
List of Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Intratextuality: Texts, Parts, and (W)holes in Theory	1	(42)
Alison Sharrock
Part I
Wrapping Homer Up: Cohesion, Discourse, and Deviation in the Iliad	43	(24)
Richard Martin
Sense and Sententiousness in the Greek Novels	67	(22)
Helen Morales
Epic in the Middle of the Wood: Mise en Abyme in the Nisus and Euryalus Episode	89	(26)
Don Fowler
Catullus, 64: Footprints in the Labyrinth	115	(28)
Elena Theodorakopoulos
Design and Designation in Virgil's Aeneid, Tacitus' Annals, and Michelangelo's Conversion of Saint Paul	143	(28)
Andrew Laird
Connecting the Disconnected: Reading Ovid's Fasti	171	(34)
Carole Newlands
Part II
Editorial Preface	204	(1)
Making a Text of the Universe: Perspectives on Discursive Order in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius	205	(22)
Duncan Kennedy
Intratext and Irony in Aristophanes	227	(36)
Jon Hesk
Dialogue and Irony in Cicero: Reading De Republica	263	(24)
Matthew Fox
The Life and Soul of the Party: Plato, Symposium	287	(44)
John Henderson
Endtext	325	(6)
References	331	(26)
Index	357