9780415073516 - Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Approaching the Ancient World) von Pelling, Christopher (15 Ergebnisse)

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Routledge, London / NewYork, 2000. X,338p. Paperback. Font cover and first pages slightly dog's eared. Still a nice copy. 'P. acknowledges some impact from theoretical work on performance, narratology, reader-response, reception, New Historicism and gender, but the impact is implicit is one of his strengths. Two others are his elegant amalgam of academic and conversational style and his sense of humour. (.) What drives P. is the texts, approached with scholarship, reasonable cynicism, and good humour. Some principles emerge. We should note what the author expected to be sayable without alienating the audience, test comic texts by asking how little must be true for a joke to work, expect authors to cater for different reactions, look for how the audience thought, attend to context, and avoid hermetically sealing 'funny' from 'serious'. (.). P.'s texts are diverse and, though rhetoric is a common factor, the manipulation of reality in Thucydides or Plutarch are rather different from those in forensic oratory, comedy, or tragedy.' (C.J. TUPLIN in The Classical Review (New Series), 2001, pp.322-323). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux.

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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. X, 338 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - stark berieben, Buchschnitt leicht verschmutzt, sonst sehr sauber und guter Zustand / heavily rubbed, book edges slightly soiled, otherwise very clean and good condition. - Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book takes a series of extended test-cases, and discusses how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances, we can investigate what really happened', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies. In others, the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts, how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the second half of the fifth century, when many of the principal genres came together, but it includes some examples from earlier (Aeschylus' Oresteia) and later periods (including Aristotle's Politics). Literary Texts and the Greek Historian examines the range of responses to these texts and suggests new ways in which literary criticism can illuminate the society from which these texts sprang. Contents Preface 1 A culture of rhetoric Audiences and genres Rhetorical narrative Attitude and occasion 2 Rhetoric and history (415 bc) Thucydides on the Herms and mysteries Andocides Reconstructing mentalities 3 How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades Plutarch Rewriting Nicias Duplication with a difference: the ostracism of Hyperbolus Alcibiades: dissent and decline Illuminating reception 4 Rhetoric and history II: Platnea (431-27 bc) The version of Apollodorus: [Demosthenes] Thucydides on Plataea Lesson 1: right and wrong Lesson 2: Plataean citizenship Lesson 3: a matter of motives 5 Explaining the war Explanatory narrative To blame and to explain Megarian decrees 6 Thucydides speeches 7 You cannot be serious: approaching Aristophanes Comedy and society Bewilderingfantasy Making comic sense We are not amused: audience prejudices and audience sympathies 8 Aristophanes Acharnians (425 bc) Dicaeopolis and Telephus Cleon Megara: the comic version Now, seriously, though. a plea for peace? 9 Tragedy and ideology Tragedy, comedy, and topicality: Euripides Orestes Aeschylus Eumenides (458 bc) What is ideology? Orestes again: disillusionment or disorientation? 10 Lysistrata and others: constructing gender Sex in context Gendering tragically Gendering comically Genderingforensically Gendering prescriptively 11 Conclusions: texts, audiences, truth Notes Bibliography General index Index of authors and texts. ISBN 9780415073516 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.

Zustand: New. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian provides a comprehensive and well documented survey of the ways in which non-historical texts, as well as historical ones, can be used to construct Greek history. Series: Approaching the Ancient World. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2000. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 368 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. Christopher Pelling is Fellow in Classics at University College, Oxford. He has written extensively on Greek biography and historiography and edited Greek Tragedy and the Historian (1997).First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &a.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them This book addresses this problem by taking a series of extended test-cases, and discussing how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances we can investigate 'what really happened', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies; in others the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts and how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the second half of the fifth-century, when many of the principal genres came together, but includes some examples from earlier (Aeschylus ^Oresteia>) and later (including Aristotles poetics). Literary Texts and the Greek Historian examines the range of responses to these texts and suggests new ways in which literary criticism can illuminate the society from which these texts sprang.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian | Christopher Pelling | Taschenbuch | Approaching the Ancient World | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1999 | Taylor & Francis Ltd | EAN 9780415073516 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.