The Letters of Alciphron
A Unified Literary Work?
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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 testimony of a nostalgia for the Athens of Menander's time. The aim is to show the unity of a literary project through studies on the careful arrangement of each book (overall organization, coherent reappropriation of a culture, innovations in generic hybridization) and various elements of cohesion between the four books. For this purpose, were used as tools codicological criticism, stylistic and rhetorical examination, analysis of prosody, study of thematic treatments, uses of onomastics.
Biographical Note
Michèle Biraud, Ph.D. (1987), Sorbonne-Paris IV University, is Professor of Greek Linguistics and Poetics at University Cote d’Azur and member of BCL (CNRS). She has published books about Determiners, Interjections, and papers concerning stress-based rhythm in Imperial Greek prose.
Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Côte d’Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.
Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Côte d’Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.
Table of contents
Preface
Notes on Contributors
1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters Émeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron Andrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites Emilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects Michèle Biraud
5 Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters Sophie Schoess
6 Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters in Alciphron Onofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron Giuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture Melissa Funke
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron’s Letters Owen Hodkinson
11 ‘Laus vitae rusticae’: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation Tiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4 Yvonne Rösch
Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum
Part 1 Structural Perspectives
1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters Émeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron Andrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites Emilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects Michèle Biraud
Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
5 Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters Sophie Schoess
6 Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters in Alciphron Onofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron Giuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture Melissa Funke
Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron’s Letters Owen Hodkinson
11 ‘Laus vitae rusticae’: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation Tiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4 Yvonne Rösch
Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum
Readership
All interested in Greek Literature of Second Sophistic (mainly intertextuality and reappropriation, ethopoia, nostalgia of Classical Athens) ; anyone concerned with internal organization of fictitious epistolary books (style, rhythm, thematics, onomastics).