“Respect These Breastsand Pity Me”
Year: 2014
Type: other
Abstract: Theatre and Novel seem to be two genres a priori opposed each another in Greek literature, and perhaps elsewhere: characters incarnated by actors in roles on one side under the audience’ eyes as opposed to characters represented (in each meaning of the word) by one or several narrators on the other. The novel seems at first sight to renew the narrative tradition coming from the epics, as if it were a kind of bourgeois epic. Homer's presence appears in Chariton, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus through several devices such as Homeric problems and quotations; the latter explicitly mentions that Theagenes is an offspring from Achilles, whereas Charicleia comes from Perseus’ and Andromeda’ union. However, as several specialists also have noted, the links between the novel and theatre, comedy as well as tragedy, are very strong, and maybe still stronger than with the Iliad and Odyssey. As far as terminology is concerned, for all the success of the term intertextuality due as it seems to Kristeva, we stress the term allusion coming from the Italian tradition (Alaux and Létoublon 1998, 145–7; cf. Morgan and Harrison 2008; Conte 1986).
Source: Wiley eBooks
Authors: Françoise Létoublon, Marco Genre
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1534144630