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Author : William Bedell Stanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Greek language
ISBN : UCSC:32106005215022
Author : William B. Stanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0384574726
Author : Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715811
Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
Author : Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691228440
Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. A History of Ambiguity remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German philosophy, and literary criticism, Anthony Ossa-Richardson explores the many ways in which readers and theorists posited, denied, conceptualised, and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts between antiquity and the twentieth century. This process took on a variety of interconnected forms, from the Renaissance delight in the ‘elegance’ of ambiguities in Horace, through the extraordinary Catholic claim that Scripture could contain multiple literal—and not just allegorical—senses, to the theory of dramatic irony developed in the nineteenth century, a theory intertwined with discoveries of the double meanings in Greek tragedy. Such narratives are not merely of antiquarian interest: rather, they provide an insight into the foundations of modern criticism, revealing deep resonances between acts of interpretation in disparate eras and contexts. A History of Ambiguity lays bare the long tradition of efforts to liberate language, and even a poet’s intention, from the strictures of a single meaning.
Author : Th. C. W. Oudemans,André P. M. H. Lardinois
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9004084177
Author : Stelios Ramphos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015068808446
From the Foreword by Olympia Dukakis: Fate and Ambiguity in Oedipus the King takes the reader on a journey through the play, concentrating on the force of the dramatic action and the poetic means by which Sophocles achieves his effects. In analyzing this quest, the book offers us fascinating insights into the nature of poetry, the function of translation, and the value of redemptive suffering.
Author : H. S. Versnel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004092668
This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.
Author : André Lardinois,Laura McClure
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691187594
This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
Author : Karelisa Hartigan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ambiguity in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106010207170
The actions of Apollo and Artemis motivate the plots of seven Euripidean plays. In these, the themes of ambiguity and self-deception are especially prominent. This book offers an analysis of each of the plays (Alkestis, Hippolytos, Ion, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Elektra, Orestes, and Iphigeneia at Aulis), and focuses primarily upon how these two ideas serve to illustrate the message of Euripides' drama.
Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106005485542
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136540233
This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].
Author : Elisabeth Schedel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004522671
The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
Author : Jane McIntosh Snyder
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9060321243
Author : Zenon Culverhouse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793611222
Philosophers accuse Socrates of advancing unfair, if not fallacious, arguments in Plato’s Hippias Minor more than in most other dialogues. In Hippias Minor, Socrates appears to defend the trickster Odysseus, and in the course of doing so he argues for outrageous claims: the honest person and the liar are no different, and the good person is one who does wrong voluntarily. In Plato’s Hippias Minor: The Play of Ambiguity, Zenon Culverhouse argues that Socrates’ questionable behavior is no coincidence in a dialogue about deception and that Socrates is examining what counts as deception and how it reflects one’s excellence. More broadly, the dialogue is about the relationship between the speaker and what is said, between agent and action. Thus, the dialogue marks an important contribution not only to Socrates’ thinking about virtue and voluntary action but also to Plato’s portrait of Socrates. For the latter, Culverhouse argues that the dialogue further defines the sometimes thin line between Socrates and his contemporaries, the sophists. Rather than exploiting ambiguity in key terms of the argument to trip up his opponent, Socrates playfully explores these ambiguities to illuminate Hippias’—and perhaps our own—serious commitments about human excellence.
Author : Roland Greene,Stephen Cushman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691170435
An essential handbook for literary studies The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies that guide users to further reading and research. Because the entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers, and researchers, as well as other readers and writers. Drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Provides 226 fully updated and authoritative entries, including 100 new to this edition, written by an international team of leading scholars Features entries on critical concepts (canon, mimesis, prosody, syntax); genres, forms, and movements (ballad, blank verse, confessional poetry, ode); and terms (apostrophe, hypotaxis and parataxis, meter, tone) Includes an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a full index
