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Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature (Hardcover)
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Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing
attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no
comprehensive work analysing the techniques of suspense through the
various genres of the Classical literary canon. This volume aspires
to fill such a gap, exploring the phenomenon of suspense in the
earliest narrative writings of the western world, the literature of
the ancient Greeks. The individual chapters focus on a wide range
of poetic and prose genres (epic, drama, historiography, oratory,
novel, and works of literary criticism) and examine the means by
which ancient authors elicited emotions of tense expectation and
fearful anticipation for the outcome of the story, the development
of the plot, or the characters' fate. A variety of theoretical
tools, from narratology and performance studies to psychological
and cognitive approaches, are exploited to study the operation of
suspense in the works under discussion. Suspenseful effects are
analysed in a double perspective, both in terms of the artifices
employed by authors and with regard to the responses and
experiences of the audience. The volume will be useful to classical
scholars, narratologists, and literary historians and theorists.
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