Theorising Lists in Literature: Towards a Listology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures XI
5. List of Tables XIII
6. Introduction: Lists, Catalogues etc. pp 1
7. Part I: Theoretical Approaches to Lists and Catalogues
8. Musing about a Table of Contents. Some Theoretical Questions Concerning Lists and Catalogues 19
9. Theorising Lists in Literature: Towards a Listology 35
10. Part II: The Cultural Poetics of Enumeration: Contexts, Materiality, Organisation
11. Lists and Chains: Enumeration in Akkadian Literary Texts. With an appendix on this Device in Borges and Hughes 57
12. Textual Webs: How to Read Mythographic Lists 81
13. The Performativity of Lists in Vernacular Curse-Practice under the Roman Empire 107
14. Powers of Suggestion of Powers: Attribute- Lists in Greek Hymns 145
15. (En)listing the Good Authors: The Defence of Greek Linguistic Variety in the Antiatticist Lexicon 169
16. Part III: The Poetics of the Epic Catalogue
17. The Catalogue in Early Greek Epic 197
18. Catalogues in Greek and Akkadian Epic: A Comparative Approach 211
19. Reliability and Evasiveness in Epic Catalogues 229
20. Looking Backwards to Posterity: Catalogues of Ancestry from Homer to Ovid 245
21. Homeric Heroes Speaking in Lists: Comical Characterisation through Catalogues 281
22. Part IV: Beyond the Epic Catalogue: Literary Appropriations of Lists and Catalogues
23. Five Times Seven: Cataloguing the Seven against Thebes in Four Greek Tragedies 305
24. The Aesthetics of the Comic List 327
25. Cataloguing Contemporaries: Ovid Ex Ponto 4.16 in Context 361
26. Cataloguing Statues: Christodoros’ Ekphrasis of the Baths of Zeuxippos 401
27. List of Contributors 421
28. General Index General Index 425
29. Index of Ancient Passages Discussed 431