Narratives at Play in Aeschylus Perspectives on Genre and Poetics
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the immaturity of the tragic genre in his time. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly constitutive of the genre for Aeschylus but later became more peripheral. The book...
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Table of Contents:
- 4.4.1. Breaking Down Narratives into Dialogues -- 4.4.2. Dramatizing Catalogues -- 4.4.3. Playing with Focalization -- Conclusions. From Tragic Narratives towards New Narratives of Tragedy -- Appendix. The Reception of the Classical Speech Criterion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Back Cover
- Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Texts and Abbreviations -- Part 1. Frameworks -- Chapter 1. A Novel Take on Tragic Narrativity -- 1.1. Aeschylus' Narrative Drama -- 1.1.1. Why Narrative Drama? -- 1.1.2. Past and Current Approaches to Tragic Narratives -- 1.1.3. This Book's Approach -- 1.2. What Narrative Drama Can and Cannot Help With -- 1.2.1. Approaches to Narrative Performance -- 1.2.2. Evolutionary Models of Tragedy -- 1.2.3. A plaidoyer for mimēsis -- Chapter 2. Notions of Genre, Ancient and Modern -- 2.1. Narrative, Drama, and Their Middle Ground -- 2.1.1. Plato: Who Gives Voice and Body to the Poem? -- 2.1.2. Aristotle on Genre and Performance -- 2.1.3. Cross-Overs of Narrative and Drama: Ancient Views -- 2.2. Generic Projections -- 2.2.1. Text Transfers -- 2.2.2. Defining Genres through their History -- 2.2.3. "Nothing Happens, Really, It Is Just Talk, Talk, Talk" -- Part 2. Applications -- Chapter 3. A Functional Analysis -- 3.1. Criteria and Categories -- 3.1.1. Criteria -- 3.1.2. Action -- 3.1.3. Narrative -- 3.1.4. Response -- 3.2. Analysis -- 3.2.1. Persians -- 3.2.2. Seven against Thebes -- 3.2.3. Suppliant Women -- 3.2.4. Prometheus -- Chapter 4. Narrative Drama: Features and Functioning -- 4.1. The Presence of Narrative -- 4.1.1. Synoptic Tables -- 4.1.2. Quantifying Narrative -- 4.1.3. Narrative-Based Structure -- 4.2. Narrative's Performativity -- 4.2.1. How to Do Things with Narratives -- 4.2.2. Parameters of Performativity -- 4.2.3. The Motor of Drama -- 4.3. Influences of Narrative on the Plot -- 4.3.1. Unitary and Disunited Plot -- 4.3.2. Elastic Plots -- 4.3.3. Anachronisms and Displacements -- 4.4. Dramatizing Narratives: Some Techniques