Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond

Towards a Poetics of Enumeration

Edited by: Rebecca Laemmle , Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle and Katharina Wesselmann

Volume 107 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712230

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About this book

Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures.
The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.

Author / Editor information

R. Laemmle, Cambridge Univ., UK; C. Scheidegger Laemmle, Univ. Basel, Switzerland; K. Wesselmann, Christian-Albr.-Univ. Kiel, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Lists, Catalogues etc. pp Rebecca Laemmle, Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle and Katharina Wesselmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Lists and Catalogues
Musing about a Table of Contents. Some Theoretical Questions Concerning Lists and Catalogues Sabine Mainberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Theorising Lists in Literature: Towards a Listology Eva von Contzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II: The Cultural Poetics of Enumeration: Contexts, Materiality, Organisation
Lists and Chains: Enumeration in Akkadian Literary Texts. With an appendix on this Device in Borges and Hughes Nathan Wasserman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Textual Webs: How to Read Mythographic Lists Charles Delattre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Performativity of Lists in Vernacular Curse-Practice under the Roman Empire Richard Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Powers of Suggestion of Powers: Attribute- Lists in Greek Hymns Oliver Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
(En)listing the Good Authors: The Defence of Greek Linguistic Variety in the Antiatticist Lexicon Olga Tribulato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Part III: The Poetics of the Epic Catalogue
The Catalogue in Early Greek Epic Edzard Visser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Catalogues in Greek and Akkadian Epic: A Comparative Approach Johannes Haubold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Reliability and Evasiveness in Epic Catalogues Christiane Reitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Looking Backwards to Posterity: Catalogues of Ancestry from Homer to Ovid Stratis Kyriakidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Homeric Heroes Speaking in Lists: Comical Characterisation through Catalogues Katharina Wesselmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Part IV: Beyond the Epic Catalogue: Literary Appropriations of Lists and Catalogues
Five Times Seven: Cataloguing the Seven against Thebes in Four Greek Tragedies Benjamin Sammons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
The Aesthetics of the Comic List Isabel Ruffell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Cataloguing Contemporaries: Ovid Ex Ponto 4.16 in Context Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Cataloguing Statues: Christodoros’ Ekphrasis of the Baths of Zeuxippos Regina Höschele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
General Index General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Index of Ancient Passages Discussed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and Readers of Classics, Reception and Comparative Literature
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 437
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Classics; Ancient Literature; Enumeration; Comparative Literature

eBook

Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110712230

Hardcover

Published: February 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110712193