Contextualizing Classics Ideology, Performance, Dialogue

by Falkner, Thomas M.; Felson, Nancy; Konstan, David; Dewald, Carolyn; Eades, Caroline; Goldhill, Simon; Kampen, Natalie Boymel; Katz, Marilyn A.; Kitzinger, Rachel; Létoublon, Françoise; Malamud, Martha A.; Miller, Mitchell; Nagy, Gregory; Peradotto, John J

• ISBN13: 9780847697335
• ISBN10: 0847697339
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to the evolution of theoretical methods within the discipline of classics. Taken together, the essays offer a spectrum of new approaches in the classics and their place within the profession.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction: Retrospection on Classical Literary Criticism	1	(18)
Charles P. Segal
Part I: Ideology
Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State	19	(22)
Peter W. Rose
Women and Democracy in Ancient Greece	41	(28)
Marilyn A. Katz
Utopia and Myth in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazousae	69	(20)
Froma I. Zeitlin
Body/Politics: Is There a History of Reading?	89	(34)
Simon Goldhill
Part II: Performance
Homer and Plato at the Panathenaia: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives	123	(28)
Gregory Nagy
Sicilian Folktales, Cognitive Psychology, and Oral Theory	151	(22)
Joseph Russo
Madness Visible: Tragic Ideology and Poetic Authority in Sophocles' Ajax	173	(32)
Thomas M. Falkner
Part III: Dialogue
Sophoklean Dialogues	205	(16)
Rachel Kitzinger
The Figured Stage: Focalizing the Initial Narratives of Herodotus and Thucydides	221	(32)
Carolyn Dewald
Platonic Mimesis	253	(16)
Mitchell Miller
Part IV: Contextualizing Classics
Gender Studies	269	(16)
Natalie Boymel Kampen
Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities	285	(16)
Seth L. Schein
From Film Analysis to Oral-Formulaic Theory: The Case of the Yellow Oilskins	301	(16)
Caroline Eades
Francoise Letoublon
Mass Market Romans	317	(18)
Martha A. Malamud
Arethusa and the Politics of Criticism	335	(12)
David Konstan
Afterword Reflections on Editorship	347	(6)
John J. Peradotto
Index	353	(2)
About the Contributors	355