The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues

The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues PDF Author: Margalit Finkelberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390022
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to the issue of narrative perspective.

The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues

The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues PDF Author: Margalit Finkelberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390022
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to the issue of narrative perspective.

Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato

Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443991
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato focuses on the intricate and multifarious ways in which Plato frames his dialogues, with a view to exploring the complex association between framework and philosophical content.

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004506055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives evoke emotions in their readers. The volume is dedicated to Irene de Jong for her groundbreaking research into the narratology of ancient literature.

Plato’s Proto-Narratology

Plato’s Proto-Narratology PDF Author: Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111307824
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Plato’s contribution to narratology has traditionally been traced in his tripartite categorisation of narrative modes we read of in the Republic. Although other aspects of storytelling are also addressed throughout the Platonic oeuvre, such passages are treated as instantaneous flares of metanarrative speculation on Plato’s part and do not seem to contribute to the reconstruction of his ‘theory of narrative’. Vasileios Liotsakis challenges this view and argues that the Statesman, the Timaeus/Critias and the Laws reveal that Plato had consolidated in his mind and compositionally put into effect one systematic mode in which to express his thoughts on narratives. In these dialogues Liotsakis recognizes the birth of a proto-narratology which differs in many respects from what we today expect from a narratological handbook, but still demonstrates two key-features of narratology: (a) a conscious focus on certain aspects of narrativity which are vastly discussed by narratologists and pertain to the structuring and reception of narratives; and (b) a schematised mode of interaction between metanarrative reflections and textual bodies which serve as the paradigms through which to explore the interpretive potential of these reflections.

Plato's Socrates as Narrator

Plato's Socrates as Narrator PDF Author: Anne-Marie Schultz
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739183311
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This book explores five Platonic dialogues: Lysis, Charmides, Protagoras, Euthydemus, and the Republic. This book uses Socrates’ narrative commentary as its primary interpretive framework. No one has engaged in a sustained attempt to explore the Platonic dialogues from this angle. As a result, it offers a unique contribution to Plato scholarship. The portrait of Socrates that emerges challenges the traditional view of Socrates as an intellectualist and offers a holistic vision of philosophical practice.

Plato of Athens

Plato of Athens PDF Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197564755
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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"Plato of Athens is the first-ever biography of the world-famous philosopher. Born into a well-to-do family, he grew up in the increasing gloom of wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. Alongside a normal Athenian education, in his teens he honed his intellect by attending lectures by the many thinkers who passed through Athens, and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. Instead he turned to writing and teaching. In 383 he founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment, But he also returned after a while to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect his political ideals. The attempt failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in his later political works"--

Plato's Political Thought

Plato's Political Thought PDF Author: John Lombardini
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004692223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Plato’s political thought continues to be of enduring interest among classicists, philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians. The present volume introduces readers to the topic through a survey of important recent trends in the scholarly literature, focusing on challenges to the authenticity of the Seventh Letter; reassessments of the “Socratic Problem”; democratic readings of the Republic; and the rehabilitation of the Statesman and Laws. It provides an overview of the key methodological issues that must be addressed in interpreting the Platonic dialogues, while also suggesting directions for further research.

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama PDF Author: Jonathan J. Price
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429656351
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature.

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias PDF Author: Gijsbert Jonkers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900433520X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers presents a new examination of the medieval manuscripts of both Platonic dialogues, an overview of the ancient tradition and a vast collection of ancient testimonia.

Plato: Republic Book I

Plato: Republic Book I PDF Author: David Sansone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108988210
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice.