Parentheses of Reception

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Parentheses of Reception

Edited by: John T. Hamilton , Evina Sistakou and Martin Vöhler

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Volume 185 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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The volume argues that the parenthesis, a rhetorical figure of speech and thought, can offer fresh insights into classical reception studies. By using the analogy of the parenthesis, we may conceptualize the received past as inserted into the present while remaining somehow apart from the present. Hence Graeco-Roman antiquity is considered as being simultaneously ‘in’ and ‘to the side of’ the receptive work. Along these lines, the volume reviews parenthesis as a heuristic tool in ancient and modern cultures, by applying it to various artistic media such as literature, theatre, art and cinema and to disciplines such as scholarship and translation. The 22 chapters of the volume are written by scholars specializing in classics, aesthetics, comparative literature and cultural studies, thus highlighting the ‘parentheses of reception’ as a fascinating topic that may attract readers from different disciplines and academic fields.

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John T. Hamilton, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA; Evina Sistakou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece; Martin Vöhler, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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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
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: Parenthesis in Ancient Literature
Roman Comedy and (Greek) Comedy Richard Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Fragmenting a Conversation on otium: Catullus 51.1–16 as Parenthesis between Calvus and Ennius Antje Wessels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Silent Witnesses and Implausible Judgements: Echoes of Direct Speech in Catullus’ Song of the Parcae (Catull. 64) Karin Schlapbach Open Access Download PDF	45
Filling Narrative Gaps and Bracketing Information in (Pseudo)Senecan Tragedy Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Part II: Parenthesis in Modern Literature
The ‘Hidden’ Flirt with Antiquity: A Parenthesis in C.P. Cavafy’s Early Poetical Work Michalis Chryssanthopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
A Part Apart: Niobe in Günter Grass’s Tin Drum John T. Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Lyric Digression, Parenthesis, Asides: Horace and Dylan Richard Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Rethinking Ovidian Womanhood in Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice” Stella Alekou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Part III: Parenthesis in Theatre
Three Witches – Three Unities: Aristotle in Macbeth Eckart Goebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Embracing Antiquity: Brecht’s Antigone-Model 1948 Martin Vöhler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Part IV: Parenthesis in Scholarship
Philology as Parenthesis: Philological Theory around 1800 and its Contemporary Potentials (Friedrich Schlegel, August Boeckh) Mark-Georg Dehrmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Artemidorus and the Question of Method in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams Felix Christen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
Rachel Bespaloff Reads (Homer) James I. Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Antiquity’s Parenthesis and the Poetics of Dissociative Time: Political Outsideness and Futurity in and through Foucault’s Cynic Parrhesia Alexandra Lianeri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Part V: Parenthesis in Translation
Translating for the Dead: Moshe Ha-Elion’s Homeric Translations into Salonican Ladino Richard H. Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Inside and Outside: David Hadbawnik’s Verse Version of Vergil’s Aeneid Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Part VI: Parenthesis in Art and Cinema
Reversible Nestings of the Mythic and the Real (Velázquez, Feast of Bacchus) Christopher S. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Illustration in and to the Side of Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism Daniel Orrells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Fragment-Bodies: Rodin’s and Rilke’s Torsos Michael Lüthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
The Classics in Viennese Modernity: A Hesiodic Parenthesis in Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze Evina Sistakou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
On Parenthetical Receptions of the Classical: Intermediality, Nesting, and the Gender of the Universal (Twombly’s Achilles, Woodman’s Daphne) Brooke Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Narrative and Parenthesis: From Homeric Simile to Cinematic Flashback Martin M. Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	457
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	487

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eBook published on:

May 6, 2025

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9783111679167

Hardcover published on:

May 6, 2025

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9783111678610

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Front matter:

13

Main content:

493

Illustrations:

22

Coloured Illustrations:

34

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111679167

eBook ISBN: 9783111679167

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111678610

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Parenthesis; Reception; Intertextuality; Classical Studies

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Scholars and students of Classical studies, history of art, and literary studies

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