Shared Storytelling in Euripidean Stichomythia (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

"Long, stichomythic dialogues in the tragedies of Euripides are connected with some of the greatest problems of critical appreciation. The form is considered unnatural particularly when characters use stichomythia to tell stories to each other. In Shared Storytelling in Euripidean Stichomythia Liesbeth Schuren tries to rehabilitate Euripidean stichomythia, using pragmatic and narratological approaches. In the section devoted to pragmatic analysis, comparison between the turn-taking systems in Euripidean stichomythia and naturally occurring conversation establishes to what extent convention and realism are operative. Using narratological arguments, the traditional apparatus is expanded to suit the dialogic nature of narrative stichomythia. Analysis of narrative presentation in storytelling with two interlocutors results in a multi-faceted perspective, an effect unique to narrative stichomythia"-- Publisher's website Shared Storytelling in Euripidean Stichomythia 4 Contents 8 Preface 12 Introduction 14 1. Stichomythia 14 2. Part 1: Pragmatics 18 3. Part 2: Narratology 20 Part 1: Pragmatic Studies 22 1 Turn-Taking 24 1.1. Introduction 24 1.2. Conversation and Turn-Taking 25 1.3. Differences 27 1.4. Similarities 31 1.4.1. Turn-Allocation 31 1.4.1.1. Verb 32 1.4.1.2. Modality 35 1.4.1.2.1 Addressee 36 1.4.1.2.2 Speaker 39 1.4.1.3. Tense 42 1.4.1.4. Hippolytus 310–353 47 1.4.2. Turn-Extent Variation 49 1.4.3. Turn-Taking Errors, Violations and Repairs 53 1.5. Conclusion 61 2 Social Deixis 63 2.1. Introduction 63 2.2. Ethnicity: βάρβαρος 65 2.3. Gender: γυνή 76 2.4. Kinship 80 2.4.1. Introduction 80 2.4.2. Speaker 81 2.4.2.1. Anchored in the Addressee 81 2.4.2.2. Anchored in the Referent of the Conversation 84 2.4.3. Referent of the Conversation 86 2.4.3.1. Anchored in the Addressee 86 2.4.3.2. Anchored in Another Referent 88 2.4.4. Polycentric and Complex Anchorage 90 2.4.5. Implicit versus Explicit Anchorage 90 2.4.6. Deceit and Dramatic Irony 92 2.4.7. Appendix: Electra 959–966 101 Part 2: Narratological Studies 104 Introduction to Part 2 106 1. Methodology 107 2. Definition 109 3 Distribution of Narrative Activity 111 3.1. Introduction 111 3.2. Methodology 112 3.3. Discussion of Examples 115 3.3.1. Balanced Narrative Activity 115 3.3.2. Accumulation of Narrative Activity 121 3.3.2.1. Yes/No Question < Answer (Affirmative) 121 3.3.2.2. Yes/No Question < Answer (Negative) 125 3.3.3. Stagnation of Narrative Activity 129 3.3.4. Unilateral Narrative Activity 134 3.4. Conclusion 138 Narrative Presentation 139 4 Historic Present 140 4.1. Introduction 140 4.2. Discussion of Examples 144 4.2.1. Narrator 144 4.2.2. Narratee 152 4.2.3. Extra-Dramatic 167 4.2.4. Problematic Presents 169 4.3. Conclusion 171 5 The Proximal Deictic Pronoun ὅδε 173 5.1. Introduction 173 5.2. Discussion of Examples 179 5.2.1. Narratee 179 5.2.1.1. Past 179 5.2.1.2. Future 190 5.2.1.3. Upshot: Textual Problems? 195 5.2.2. Narrator 196 5.2.3. Overlap and Ambiguity 203 5.2.4. Narrative Deixis outside Stichomythia 208 5.3. Conclusion 209 6 Ex Eventu Knowledge 211 6.1. Introduction 211 6.2. Discussion of Examples 213 6.3. Conclusion 235 Conclusion 238 Bibliography 244 Index Locorum 261 Index of Subjects 277 Index of Greek Words 282 In Shared Storytelling In Euripidean Stichomythia Liesbeth Schuren Offers Pragmatic And Narratological Approaches To Stichomythic Dialogue In The Tragedies Of Euripides.