Narrators and Focalizers: The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad (BCPaperback Series) (BCPaperback Series)

"Irene de Jong's Narrators and Focalizers was acclaimed as one of the pioneering texts to introduce narratology (the theory that deals with the general principles underlying narrative texts) to classical scholarship. The book explains key concepts such as 'narrator', 'narratee', 'focalization', 'analepsis' and 'prolepsis', highlighting their relevance by using them for the analysis and interpretation of Homer's Iliad. What is the role of the narrator, how does the subjectivity of the characters find expression, and how do the parts of the story told by the narrator relate to the many speeches for which Homer is famous? This new edition of this important work includes a substantial new Introduction by the author, offering an overview of the trends in Homeric narratological scholarship over the last decade, along with a much more user-friendly Index of Passages."--Bloomsbury Publishing Irene de Jong's Narrators and Focalizers was acclaimed as one of the pioneering texts to introduce narratology (the theory that deals with the general principles underlying narrative texts) to classical scholarship. The book explains key concepts such as 'narrator', 'narratee', 'focalization', 'analepsis' and 'prolepsis', highlighting their relevance by using them for the analysis and interpretation of Homer's Iliad. What is the role of the narrator, how does the subjectivity of the characters find expression, and how do the parts of the story told by the narrator relate to the many speeches for which Homer is famous? This new edition of this important work includes a substantial new Introduction by the author, offering an overview of the trends in Homeric narratological scholarship over the last decade, along with a much more user-friendly Index of Passages Acclaimed as one of the pioneering texts to introduce narratology (the theory that deals with the general principles underlying narrative texts) to classical scholarship, Irene de Jong's work explains the key concepts such as "narrator", "focalization" and "prolepsis", highlighting their relevance by using them for the analysis and interpretation of Homer's "Iliad". What is the role of the narrator and how do the parts of the story told by the narrator relate to the many speeches for which Homer is famous? This work was first published in 1987 and it is reissued here with a new introduction by the author, offering an overview of the trends in Homeric narratological scholarship over the last decade. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION, 1987 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION, 2004 1. THE PRESENTATION OF THE STORY IN THE ILIAD: THE STATE OF THE ART 2. A NARRATOLOGICAL MODEL OF ANALYSIS 3. SIMPLE NARRATOR-TEXT 4. COMPLEX NARRATOR-TEXT (EMBEDDED FOCALIZATION) 5. CHARACTER-TEXT (SPEECHES) 6. THE RELATION OF NARRATOR-TEXT (SIMPLE AND COMPLEX) AND CHARACTER-TEXT 7. CONCLUSION. NARRATORS AND FOCALIZERS APPENDICES NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF SUBJECTS INDEX OF PAS SAGES The most important work on Homer's technique as narrator offers an overview of the trends in Homeric narratological scholarship over the last decade The aim of this chapter is to survey ancient (1.1) and modern (1.2) opinions on the presentation of the story in the Iliad. Irene J. F. De Jong. Originally Published: S.l.: S.n., 1987. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.