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Author:

Calame, Claude.

Title:

Masks of authority : fiction and pragmatics in ancient Greek poetics / Claude Calame ; translated from the French by Peter M. Burk.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xiv, 248 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Greek poetry--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
Pragmatics--History--To 1500.
Poetics--History--To 1500.
Authority in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.

Other Authors:

Burk, Peter Michael, 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.

Contents:

Enunciative games and masks of poetic authority -- 1: Poems as performative discourses in action -- Relationships with the Gods and poetic functions in the Homeric Hymns -- Prelude to a poetry of action: the proem of Hesiod's Works and days -- Fiction as narrative argumentation: Sappho and Helen -- Legendary narration and poetic: procedure in Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo -- 2: Gazes of authority -- Learning to drink, learning to sing: poetic and iconic speech in the symposium -- Vision, blindness, and mask: enunciation and emotion in Sophocles' Oedipus tyrannus -- Unmasked by the mask: enunciative and pragmatic effects in Aristophanes -- 3: Greek poetic authorities -- Uttering human nature by constructing the inhabited world: the well-tempered racism of Hippocrates -- Orphic voices and initiatory functions: the Derveni theogony and its commentary -- A civilization of poets: liminal spaces and discursive voices in Theocritus' Idyll I.

Series:

Myth and poetics

ISBN:

9780801438929 (acid-free paper)
0801438926 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56064676

LCCN:

2004017457

Locations:

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

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)