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Title:

Matrices of genre : authors, canons, and society / edited by Mary Depew & Dirk Obbink.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

346 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Classical literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Literature and society--Greece.
Literature and society--Rome.
Canon (Literature)
Literary form.

Other Authors:

Depew, Mary.
Obbink, Dirk.

Notes:

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 305-339.

Contents:

Generating genres / Glenn W. Most -- Epigram and reader / Joseph W. Day -- Enacted and represented dedications / Mary Depew -- Formulas, voice, and death in Ehoie-poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos, and the Odysseian Nekuia / Ian Rutherford -- Herodotus's genre(s) / Deborah Boedeker -- From Aristophaes to meander? / Eric Csapo -- Theocritus and the "demythologizing" of poetry / Marco Fantuzzi -- Lycophron's Alexandra / Stephanie West -- Rituals in ink / Alessandro Barchiesi -- The dialectics of genre / Ineke Sluiter -- The didactic plot / Don Fowler -- Essential epic / Stephen Hinds .

Series:

Center for Hellenic studies colloquia 4

ISBN:

9780674003385
0674003381

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44391491

LCCN:

00040942

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)