Strategies Of Ambiguity In Ancient Literature

Author : Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
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Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715842

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Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature by Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis Pdf

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 : Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715811

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Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature by Martin Vöhler,Therese Fuhrer,Stavros Frangoulidis Pdf

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 : Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000987843

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Strategies of Ambiguity by Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker Pdf

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors not only enquire into effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Elisabeth Schedel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004522671

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Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479) by Elisabeth Schedel Pdf

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 : Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111317144

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Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature by Therese Fuhrer, Janja Soldo Pdf

Author : Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110796612

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The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission by Nicoletta Bruno,Giulia Dovico,Olivia Montepaone,Marco Pelucchi Pdf

Building on Calvino’s observations on Exactitude in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the present book elucidates on the possible definitions of exactitude, the endeavor of reaching exactitude, and the undeniable limits to the achievement of this ambitious milestone. The eighteen essays in this interdisciplinary volume show how ancient and medieval authors have been dealing with the problem of exactitude vs. inexactitude and have been able to exploit the ambiguities related to these two concepts to various ends. The articles focus on rhetoric and historiography (section I), exact sciences and technical disciplines (II), the peculiarity of quotations (III), cases of programmatic inexactitude (IV) and textual transmission (V). Several interconnected questions weave a net across the volume: to what extent is exactitude the goal in ancient and medieval texts? How can the concepts of accuracy and inaccuracy aid the reinterpretation of an already known text or fact? To what extent can certain definitions of exactitude be stretched, without turning into inexactitude? The volume presents an extensive study capable of highlighting the shrewdness and aptness of the concepts introduced by Calvino more than thirty years ago.

Author : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Marco Formisano,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111340944

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Labor Imperfectus by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Marco Formisano,Stavros Frangoulidis Pdf

Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.

Author : Kostas Apostolakis,Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783111295992

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The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy by Kostas Apostolakis,Ioannis M. Konstantakos Pdf

Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from vocabulary and figures of speech (metaphors, similes, rhyme) to types of joke, obscenity, and the mechanisms of parody. Most of the chapters focus on Aristophanes and Old Comedy, which offers the richest arsenal of such techniques, but the less ploughed fields of Middle and New Comedy are also explored. Emphasis is placed on practical criticism and textual readings, on the examination of particular artifices of speech and the analysis of individual passages. The main purpose is to highlight the use of language for the achievement of the aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual purposes of ancient comedy, in particular for the generation of humour and comic effect, the delineation of characters, the transmission of ideological messages, and the construction of poetic meaning. The volume will be useful to scholars of ancient drama, linguists, students of humour, and scholars of Classical literature in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350276659

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Roman Law and Latin Literature by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite there being periods of massive tectonic shifts in the legal and literary landscapes, the Republic and Empire of Rome have not until now been the focus of interdisciplinary study in this field. This volume brings vital new material to the attention of the law and literature movement. An interdisciplinary approach is at the heart of this volume: specialists in Roman law rarely engage in constructive dialogue with specialists in Latin literature and vice versa but this volume bridges that divide. It shows how literary scholars are eager to examine the importance of law in literature or the juridical nature of Latin literature, while Romanists are ready to embrace the interactions between literary and legal discourse. This collection capitalizes on the opportunity to open a fruitful dialogue between scholars of Latin literature and Roman law and thus makes a major, much-needed contribution to the growing field of law and literature.

Author : Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110616644

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Handbook of Diachronic Narratology by Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid Pdf

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.

Author : William Bedell Stanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257913771

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Ambiguity in Greek Literature by William Bedell Stanford Pdf

Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666933062

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A Reading of Petronius' Satyrica by Lee Fratantuono Pdf

A Reading of Petronius’ Satyricon offers a detailed literary commentary on one of the surviving masterpieces of classical literature, with a complete guide to Petronian scholarship.

Author : Esme Winter-Froemel,Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110668636

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Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance by Esme Winter-Froemel,Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta Pdf

Discourse Traditions are a key concept of diachronic Romance linguistics. The present manual aims to establish this approach at an international level by assembling contributions that introduce its theoretical foundations, discuss connections with alternative approaches of text and discourse analysis, show the relevance of Discourse Traditions for the history of Romance languages, and explore possibilities for future applications of the concept.

Author : Andrea Cucchiarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192888778

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A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues by Andrea Cucchiarelli Pdf

Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.

Author : Lisa Cordes,Therese Fuhrer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110795257

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The Gendered ‘I’ in Ancient Literature by Lisa Cordes,Therese Fuhrer Pdf

Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity, the volume starts from the premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically modelled and aesthetically shaped. Focusing on different types of Greek and Latin literature, poetry and prose, from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity, the contributions analyse the use and modelling of gender-specific elements in different types of first-person speech, be it that the speaker is (represented as) the author of a work, be it that they feature as characters in the work, narrating their own story or that of others. In doing so, they do not only offer new insights into the rhetorical strategies and literary techniques used to construct a gendered ‘I’ in ancient literature. They also address the form and function of first-person discourse in classical literature in general, touching on fields of research that have increasingly come into focus in recent years, such as authorship studies, studies concerning the ancient notion(s) of the literary persona, as well as a historical narratology that discusses concepts such as the narrator or the literary character in ancient literary theory and practice.