Prolepsis in Ancient Greek Narrative

Definitions, Forms and Effects
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71552-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: The Language of Classical Literature

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive study of prolepsis in narratives written in ancient Greek, ranging from Homer to the late antique author Colluthus, with the inclusion of Second Temple Jewish Literature. Structuralist narratology defines prolepsis as the narration in advance of an event that takes place later in the story. The papers collected in this volume start from this approach, but move beyond it by exploring a wide range of new definitions, forms and readerly effects of prolepsis. Several contributions draw on postclassical narratological approaches and focus on cognitive aspects of reading, narrative virtuality, and readerly (un)certainty that stems from prolepses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schomber, Saskia

Tagliabue, Aldo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Narrating Ahead

Saskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue

2 Additive Anachronies in Homer

Alexander C. Loney

3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotus’ Histories

Irene J.F. de Jong

4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophon’s Narrative of Mantinea (Hell. 7.5): The Fog of War

Luuk Huitink

5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

Evert van Emde Boas

6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2?Maccabees: That Was Now, This Is Then

R.Gillian Glass

7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodian’s History of the Empire after Marcus: The Paradox of Anticipation

Mario Baumann

8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and Closure

Benedek Kruchió

9 The Inset Stories of Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual Prolepses

Aldo Tagliabue

10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica

Jonas Grethlein

11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen: Ghost Stories and Virtual Narratives

Saskia Schomber

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Saskia Schomber is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich. She is currently preparing her PhD dissertation (defended in 2024) on the narrative aesthetics of late Greek epic for publication. Her research interests further include postclassical narratology and critical approaches to Classics.

Aldo Tagliabue, Ph.D. (2011), is an assistant professor of ancient Greek Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cognitive narratology and Second Sophistic literature. He has published a monograph on Xenophon’s Ephesiaca (2017, Barkhuis).

Contributors are: Mario Baumann, R. Gillian Glass, Jonas Grethlein, Evert van Emde Boas, Luuk Huitink, Irene J.F. de Jong, Benedek Kruchió, Alexander C. Loney, Saskia Schomber, Aldo Tagliabue