Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature
by Ioannis M. Konstantakos, Vasileios Liotsakis
1st Edition
Publisher: De Gruyter
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9783110715392 |
| eText ISBN | 9783110715583 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 449 |
Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature, 1st Edition, examines how ancient Greek authors created suspense across diverse poetic and prose genres. The book investigates the literary techniques employed to evoke tense expectation, plot anticipation, and concern regarding the fates of characters.
The volume addresses forms including epic, drama, historiography, oratory, the novel, and works of literary criticism. Contributing scholars evaluate these traditions using narratology, performance studies, and cognitive and psychological approaches.
Prepared for classical scholars, narratologists, literary historians, and literary theorists, the volume explores both authorial artifices and the resulting responses and experiences of audiences.
Table of Contents
Part I: Literary Criticism
- • ἵν’ ὁ θεατὴς προσδοκῶν καθῇτο: What Did Ancient Critics Know of ‘Suspense’?
Part II: Archaic Poetry
- • Homeric Suspense
- • Suspense, Orality, and Hymnic Narrative: The Case of the Homeric Hymns
Part III: Tragedy
- • Waiting for Xerxes: Information Economics and the Composition of a Suspense Plot out of Familiar Events in Aeschylus’ Persae
- • Narrative Suspense in Sophocles: The Moral Perplexity of Duelling Narratives in Philoctetes
- • Affective Suspense in Euripides’ Ion
Part IV: Comedy
- • Staged Suspense: Scenic Spectacle, Anxious Expectation, and Dramatic Enthralment in Aristophanic Theatre
Part V: Historiography
- • Suspense in Herodotus’ Narrative of the Battle of Thermopylae
- • The Thucydidean Question, Structuralism, and ‘Neo-Unitarianism’: Near Misses and Suspense in the History
- • Suspense in Conspiracy Narratives: Polybius and Appian
Part VI: Oratory
- • Suspense in Lysias
- • Narrative and Suspense in Public Forensic Orations
Part VII: Novel
- • Suspense in the Ancient Greek Novel
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