Autore	Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cornell University Press, 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	398/.0954/3
Collana	Myth and Poetics
Soggetto topico	Folklore - India - Chhatt̄isgarh Women - India - Chhattīsgarh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN	9781501722868 1501722867
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- I. Introduction: Region, Repertoire, and Genre -- 2. Soaking the Goddess, Celebrating Friendship Bhojalī -- 3. Brave Daughters, Bound Kings: A Female Tradition of Reversal Ḍālkhāī -- 4. Land of Wealth, Land of Famine: The "Parrot Dance" in Ritual and Narrative Suā Nāc -- 5. Joining Verse to Verse: Professional Storytelling and Individual Creativity Kathānī Kūhā -- 6. "This Is Our Story": A Chhattisgarhi Epic Candainī -- 7. Paṇḍvānī Heroines, Chhattisgarhi Daughters Paṇḍvānī -- 8. Conclusion: Shifting Boundaries of Genre and Community -- The Song of Subanbali -- Kathānī Kūhā: Of Friendship, Love, and Memory -- Sample Transcriptions of Performance Texts -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910272353403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (427 p.)
Disciplina	880.9
Altri autori (Persone)	NagyGregory
Soggetto topico	Greek literature - History and criticism Greek literature - Rome - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-61689-8 1-136-06594-6 1-136-06586-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Acknowledgments; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Section A. Literacy Theory; 1. Criticism Ancient and Modern; 2. Longinus Revisited; 3. Greeks, Romans, and the Rise of Atticism; Section B. Classical Forms; 4. The Construction of the Sixth Book of Polybius; 5. Genre through Intertextuality: Theocritus to Virgil and Propertius; 6. Simonides and Horace on the Death of Achilles; 7. Sappho 31 and Catullus 51: The Dialogism of Lyric; 8. Roman Aristotle; 9. Cicero and Greek Philosophy; 10. The Lyra of Orpheus; 11. Varro and Orpheus 12. Greek Drama in the Roman Empire13. The Concept of sôma tôn graphôn in Alexandrian Theology; 14. Hubris in Josephus' Jewish Antiquities 1-4; Section C. The Novel and Related Literary Forms; 15. Who Read Ancient Novels?; 16. Lollianus and the Desperadoes; 17. AITHIOPIKA of Heliodorus: Narrative as Riddle; 18. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and Roman Narrative Painting; 19. Muthos ou Logos: Longus's Lesbian Pastorals; 20. Memory and Description in the Ancient Novel; 21. The Rhetoric of a ""Divine Man"": Apollonius of Tyana as Critic of Oratory and as Orator according to Philostratus 22. Singing Heroes: The Poetics of Hero Cult in Philostrators's Heroikos23. Hypatia's Murder-The Sacrifice of a Virgin and Its Implications; Copyright Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453402703321

Edizione	[1st edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Routledge, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (412 p.)
Disciplina	880.9
Collana	Greek Literature
Soggetto topico	Greek literature - History and criticism
ISBN	1-136-54051-2 1-136-54044-X 0-203-05590-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Series Introduction; Volume Introduction; Section A. Historiography; 1. Narrative Surface and Authorial Voice in Herodotus' Histories; 2. The Historians of the Classical World and Their Audiences; 3. Who Read Herodotus' Histories?; 4. Herodotus' Use of Prospective Sentences and the Story of Rhapsinitus and the Thief in the Histories; 5. Herodotus and the Language of Metals; 6. Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos' Histories; 7. Herodotus the Tourist; 8. Thucydides' Use of Herodotus; 9. Thucydides in the Act of Writing 10. Power, Prestige, and the Corcyrean Affair in Thucydides I11. Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily; 12. Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice; 13. A Post-Modernist Thucydides; 14. Silent Women of Thucydides: 2.45.2 Re-Viewed; 15. Pseudo-Xenophon; Section B. Oratory; 16. Rhetorical Performative Discourse: A New Theory of Epideictic; 17. On Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously; 18. Dikastic Thorubos; 19. The Athenian ""Politicians,"" 403-322 B.C.; 20. Poetry and the Demos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession 21. Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory22. The Virtuoso Passages in Demosthenes' Speeches; 23. The Epiphany of Demosthenes; Copyright Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910786519203321

Autore	Reynolds Dwight Fletcher <1956->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cornell University Press, 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Disciplina	398/.0962
Collana	Myth and Poetics
Soggetto topico	Rites and ceremonies - Egypt Oral tradition - Egypt Folklore - Egypt - Performance Epic poetry, Arabic - Egypt - History and criticism Ethnology - Egypt
ISBN	9781501723216 1501723219 9781501723223 1501723227
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory -- Preface -- Notes on Transcription and Transliteration -- Introduction: The Tradition -- Part One: The Ethnography of a Poetic Tradition -- I. The Village -- 2. Poets Inside and Outside the Epic -- 3. The Economy of Poetic Style -- Part Two: Textual and Performance Strategies in the Sahra -- 4. The Interplay of Genres -- 5. The Sahra as Social Interaction -- Conclusion: Epic Text and Context -- Appendix: Texts in Transliteration -- Works Cited -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910272354903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (197 p.)
Disciplina	889/.09
Altri autori (Persone)	NagyGregory ReillyJennifer StavrakopoulouAnna
Soggetto topico	Greek literature, Modern - History and criticism Byzantine literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-57668-8 0-203-61095-4 1-280-15001-7 0-203-50391-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ancient Models and Novel Mixtures: The Concept of Genre in Byzantine Funerary Literature from Photios to Eustathios of Thessalonike; Chapter 2 The Conflict between Scholarios and Plethon: Religion and Communal Identity in Early Modern Greece; Chapter 3 De Man, the Woman, and Her Writing: Transcendence and/or Defacement in Elisavet Moutzan-Martinengou's Autobiography; Chapter 4 The Poetics of Mimicry: Pitzipios' 'O and the Beginnings of the Modern Greek Novel Chapter 5 'There Was Only One Thing Paradoxical About the Man": An Oblique Perspective on Madness in Four Stories by GeorgiosChapter 6 Promiscuous Texts and Abandoned Readings in the Poetry of C.P.Cavafy; Chapter 7 Literature as Historiography: The Boxful of Guilt; Chapter 8 Leaving, Losing, Letting Go: Some Steps in Bilingual Transformations in the Work of Theodor Kallifatides; Chapter 9 "Return from Greece": Journey and Homecoming in Two Contemporary Greek Novels; Chapter 10 Palimpsests of Sappho in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Greece: An Overview; Notes on Contributors; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457875303321