Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models: Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Vol. 4

Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric" ‎Contents 5 ‎Preface and Acknowledgments 7 ‎Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations 9 ‎Figures and Tables 10 ‎Figures 10 ‎Table 10 ‎Notes on Contributors 11 ‎Introduction (Foster, Kurke, and Weiss) 15 ‎Part 1. Keynote Address 43 ‎Chapter 1. Genre, Occasion, and Choral Mimesis Revisited, with Special Reference to the “Newest Sappho” (Nagy) 45 ‎Part 2. Genre, Generification, and Performance 69 ‎Chapter 2. Linus: The Rise and Fall of Lyric Genres (Ford) 71 ‎Chapter 3. Sappho’s Parachoral Monody (Power) 96 ‎Chapter 4. The Speaking Persona: Ancient Commentators on Choral Performance (Schironi) 123 ‎Part 3. Genre Mixing 147 ‎Chapter 5. Chorus Lines: Catalogues and Choruses in Archaic and Early Classical Hexameter Poetry and Choral Lyric (Steiner) 149 ‎Chapter 6. Generic Hybridity in Athenian Tragedy (Weiss) 181 ‎Chapter 7. Athens and Apolline Polyphony in Bacchylides’ Ode 16 (Foster) 205 ‎Part 4. Affect, Materiality, and the Body: The Somatics of Genre 243 ‎Chapter 8. Is Korybantic Performance a (Lyric) Genre? (Griffith) 245 ‎Chapter 9. Iambic Horror: Shivers and Brokenness in Archilochus and Hipponax (Telò) 285 ‎Chapter 10. Experiencing Elegy: Materiality and Visuality in the Ambracian Polyandrion (Estrin) 312 ‎Chapter 11. Pindar, Paean 6: Genre as Embodied Cultural Knowledge (Olsen) 339 ‎Bibliography 361 ‎Index Locorum 398 ‎General Index 409 Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric" "Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry foregrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric" -- Provided by publisher Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. Readership: Students and scholars across the Humanities who are concerned with questions of genre and the history of lyric, and anyone interested in ancient Greek poetry.