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The Letters of Alciphron
A Unified Literary Work?
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 424
- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature, Volume: 424
In âThe Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?â, 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.
Michèle Biraud, Ph.D. (1987), Sorbonne-Paris IV University, is Professor of Greek Linguistics and Poetics at University Cote dâAzur 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 dâAzur 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 dâAzur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.
Preface Notes on Contributors
1 On the Structure of Alciphronâs Letters âÃmeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron âAndrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphronâs Letters of Parasites âEmilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects âMichèle Biraud
5 Alciphronâs Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphronâs Letters âSophie Schoess
6 Womenâs Voices: Four or Five Womenâs Letters in Alciphron âOnofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron âGiuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphronâs Use of Visual Culture âMelissa Funke
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron âRafael J. Gallé Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphronâs Letters âOwen Hodkinson
11 âLaus vitae rusticaeâ: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation âTiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphronâs Book 4 âYvonne Rösch
Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum
Part 1 Structural Perspectives
1 On the Structure of Alciphronâs Letters âÃmeline Marquis
2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron âAndrew Morrison
3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphronâs Letters of Parasites âEmilia Barbiero
4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects âMichèle Biraud
Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds
5 Alciphronâs Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphronâs Letters âSophie Schoess
6 Womenâs Voices: Four or Five Womenâs Letters in Alciphron âOnofrio Vox
7 The Sea of Alciphron âGiuseppe Zanetto
8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphronâs Use of Visual Culture âMelissa Funke
Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations
9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron âRafael J. Gallé Cejudo
10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphronâs Letters âOwen Hodkinson
11 âLaus vitae rusticaeâ: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation âTiziana Drago
12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphronâs Book 4 âYvonne Rösch
Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum
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).