The letters of Alciphron : a unified literary work? /

The letters of Alciphron : a unified literary work? /

In 'The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?', Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testim...

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Other Authors: Biraud, Michèle (Editor), Zucker, Arnaud (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 424.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2019, ISBN: 9789004390850.

Subjects:

Alciphron. > Epistularum libri IV.
Greek literature > History and criticism.

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Call Number: PA3862.A4

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Structural Perspectives
  • On the Structure of Alciphron's Letters /
  • Émeline Marquis
  • Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron /
  • A.D. Morrison
  • Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron's Letters of Parasites /
  • Emilia A. Barbiero
  • Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects /
  • Michèle Biraud
  • Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
  • Alciphron's Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythological References and Comparisons in Alciphron's Letters /
  • A. Sophie Schoess
  • Women's Voices: Four or Five Women's Letters by Alciphron /
  • Onofrio Vox
  • The Sea of Alciphron /
  • Giuseppe Zanetto
  • Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron's Use of Visual Culture /
  • Melissa Funke
  • Generic Tensions and Innovations
  • Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatic Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron /
  • Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
  • Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron /
  • Owen Hodkinson
  • Laus vitae rusticae: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation in the Letters of Alciphron /
  • Anna Tiziana Drago
  • Close Encounters with the hetaira: Reading Alciphron's Book 4 /
  • Yvonne Rösch
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.