| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index. |
| Contents |
I. Classical plot. 1. Approaches. 2. A cognitive model. 3. Narrative universe. 4. Classical plot. 5. Unclassical plots -- II. Classical plots. 6. Epic myth I: Iliad. 7. Epic myth II: Odyssey. 8. Dramatic myth: tragedy and satyr-play. 9. Dramatic fiction: New Comedy. 10. Epic fiction: the Greek novel. |
| Summary |
"From Homer to Hollywood, the Western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognized system of terminology in recent literary theory. The first part of the book draws on current developments in narratalogy and cognitive science to propose a new way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. |
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This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with new insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Classical literature. |
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Classical literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Stories, plots, etc.
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| Subject |
Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Plot summaries.
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Plot summaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowe, N.J. Classical plot and the invention of Western narrative. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521771765 (DLC) 99052857 (OCoLC)42680495 |
| ISBN |
0511017413 (electronic book) |
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9780511017414 (electronic book) |
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9780511482281 (electronic book) |
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0511482280 (electronic book) |
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9780511049613 (electronic book) |
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0511049617 (electronic book) |
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0511152388 |
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9780511152382 |
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0521771765 |
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9780521771764 |
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0521604451 (paperback) |
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9780521604451 (paperback) |
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