The classical plot and the invention of Western narrative /
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
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| ISBN: | 0511017413 9780511017414 9780511482281 0511482280 9780511049613 0511049617 0511152388 9780511152382 1107119448 9781107119444 0511173326 9780511173325 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- I. The classical plot. 1. Approaches. 2. A cognitive model. 3. The narrative universe. 4. The classical plot. 5. Unclassical plots
- II. The 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.