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Book SynopsisIn ‘The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?’, Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker have gathered a dozen international contributions about the collection of letters of Alciphron, hitherto mainly studied as part of the epistolary genre at the time of the Second Sophistic or as testimony of a nostalgia for the Athens of Menander's time. The aim is to show the unity of a literary project through studies on the careful arrangement of each book (overall organization, coherent reappropriation of a culture, innovations in generic hybridization) and various elements of cohesion between the four books. For this purpose, were used as tools codicological criticism, stylistic and rhetorical examination, analysis of prosody, study of thematic treatments, uses of onomastics.
Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Part 1 Structural Perspectives 1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s Letters Émeline Marquis 2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron Andrew Morrison 3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of Parasites Emilia Barbiero 4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural Aspects Michèle Biraud Part 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds 5 Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s Letters Sophie Schoess 6 Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters in Alciphron Onofrio Vox 7 The Sea of Alciphron Giuseppe Zanetto 8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual Culture Melissa Funke Part 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations 9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of Alciphron Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo 10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron’s Letters Owen Hodkinson 11 ‘Laus vitae rusticae’: Conventionality, Imitation, Variation Tiziana Drago 12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4 Yvonne Rösch Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum Index Locorum
