Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)

Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) by Thomas Jenkins Download PDF EPUB FB2

Intercepted Letters examines the phenomenon of epistolarity within a range of classical Greek and Roman texts, with a focus on letters as symbols for larger, culturally constructed processes of reading, writing, and interpretation.

In addition, it analyzes how the epistolary form occasionally Pages: Get this from a library. Intercepted letters: epistolarity and narrative in Greek and Roman literature. [Thomas E Jenkins] -- "Intercepted Letters examines the phenomenon of epistolarity within a range of classical Greek and Roman texts, with a focus on letters.

Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature Author: Thomas E. Jenkins Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: Category: Literary Criticism Page: View: DOWNLOAD NOW» Intercepted Letters examines the phenomenon of epistolarity within a range of classical Greek and Roman texts, with a focus on letters as symbols for.

Jenkins, Thomas E. Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature. Lanham: Lexington Books, xiii + pages, cloth, $, ISBN Ley, Graham.

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater. Revised Edition. Chicago: The University of. This is the first book to deal synoptically with the phenomenon of the letter in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. The field of ‘letters’ is of course potentially limitless, and some important parameters have been adopted: the reference to ‘literature’ in the title is an index both of the subject-matter and of the approach : Tim Whitmarsh.

Jenkins, T. () Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature. Lanham, Md. Johnson, W. () “ Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity.”.

Introduction. Like their Greek counterparts (see Oxford Bibliographies article in Classics Greek Literary Letters), Roman literary letters have elicited an increasing amount of scholarly attention in recent g some common ground between the two cultures, we could settle for the principle in Demetrius (or pseudo-Demetrius) de Elocutione that letters propose to bridge distance between.

He has published widely on classical texts, including his book Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (), as well as articles on Ovid, Euripides, Homer, and especially classical reception.

He has been a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, and winner of the inaugural Paul Rehak. Roman Women. Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp.

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Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least. Search for: Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Posted on by moheq by moheq. The letter in Greek literature. Intercepted letters: epistolarity and narrative in Greek and Roman literature.

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Intercepted letters; epistolarity and narrative in Greek and Roman literature. A concise guide to teaching Latin literature. Paideia Romana; Cicero's Tusculan disputations. General Overviews. Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in in literary letters.

The two most comprehensive treatments are Rosenmeyer and Ceccarelli ; both explore the varied aspects of epistolarity in Greek antiquity and provide a solid base from which to begin studying specific texts.

Muir conveniently and succinctly combines discussion of both nonliterary and literary. Thomas E. Jenkins is associate professor of classical studies at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

He is the author of Intercepted Letters: Epistolarity and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (London ) as well as articles on a broad range of classical literature. His current research includes reception theory, especially contemporary American appropriations of classical texts.

Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches As did their cultures in antiquity, Greek Studies and Roman Studies will complement each other. Roman Studies will focus on subjects related to the Roman world, examined from a multitude of angles. Skip to content. main page.

Menu Skip to content. main page. Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. pava 0 pava 0. The ancient examples contain only letters, and never present an editor, although ancient literature had ‘discovered texts'.

Both ancient and modern examples are deeply interested in the psychology of characters and their motivation, in the power but also the dangers of communication in letters, and in epistolarity itself.

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Lanham. this is the first book to discuss this phenomenon in classical literature. It responds to a growing.Intercepted Letters: Epistolary and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature. THOMAS E. JENKINS. An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. JEREMY KIRBY. The Role of Exaíphnes in Early Greek Literature: Philosophical Transformation in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond.