The ancient critic at work: terms and concepts of literary by René Nünlist
By René Nünlist
The massive yet underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes present in manuscripts, is a crucial resource for historic literary feedback. The facts of the scholia considerably provides to and complements the image that may be won from learning the proper treatises (such as Aristotle's Poetics): scholia additionally include strategies that aren't present in the treatises, and they're indicative of ways the innovations are literally positioned to exploit within the innovative interpretation of texts. The publication additionally demonstrates that it will be important to check either old terminology and the situations the place a specific phenomenon is just paraphrased. Nineteen thematic chapters offer a repertoire of a number of the phrases and ideas of old literary feedback. The proper witnesses are greatly quoted in Greek and English translation. A word list of Greek phrases (with translation) and a number of other indices let the booklet additionally for use for reference.
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Instead of devoting too much space to arguments which, at this stage, are likely to remain inconclusive, it seemed preferable to prepare the ground for further research by first examining the considerable range of relevant terms and concepts of literary criticism. It is my hope that, in combination with studies on other areas covered by the The mechanism by which technical vocabulary can gain a life of its own is probably a universal phenomenon (cf. g. ‘intertextuality’ in today’s scholarship).
This is likely to point to direct dependence or a common source. Cf. the generalising schol. Pi. N. b. In a similar vein, Homer is said to attribute to the gods what happens by chance in reality (see Chapter ). Plot The goal of avoiding anything that is superfluous (see above) opens a further perspective on the question of o«konom©a. Ancient literary critics from Aristotle’s time on were concerned about the unity and balanced structure of a poem. Because of its origin in husbandry (Quint.
The same phenomenon as prooikonom©a can also be expressed by the term proparaskeu (and cognates), as can be seen, for example, in a scholion which makes a point similar to Megaclides’ above. ) proparaskeuzei tn ëOplopoi¹aná (schol. T Il. ) He [sc. Homer] prepares for the ‘Production of the Armour’. Nestor’s wish will be fulfilled, but Patroclus will lose Achilles’ armour, which indirectly motivates the scene in the blacksmith’s shop on Mt Olympus. There the general idea seems to be that unrealistic or implausible phenomena (such as Polyphemus’ supernatural powers) must be carefully ‘prepared for’ in advance by the orator or poet, lest the audience be taken by surprise and be unwilling to believe them (same idea in schol.