The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative

N. J. Lowe

ISBN 10: 0521604451 / ISBN 13: 9780521604451

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is the story of how Western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still employed in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling, centered on Homer, early tragedy, Hellenistic comedy, and the Greek love-novels of the early centuries AD. Along the way, it draws on cognitive science and current literary theory to offer a resilient yet accessible new theory of what 'plot' is and how it works.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521604451
• ISBN 13: 9780521604451
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 18D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 503 grams

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Synopsis

This is the story of how Western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still employed in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling, centered on Homer, early tragedy, Hellenistic comedy, and the Greek love-novels of the early centuries AD. Along the way, it draws on cognitive science and current literary theory to offer a resilient yet accessible new theory of what "plot" is and how it works.

Review

"A rare, even unique offering." Choice

"This book deserves attention from tose interested in deep structures of Greek and dependent literary traditions." Donald Lateiner, Ohio University