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presentation of a character's perceptions, thoughts, and emotions by the narrator in a narrator-text, she challenges the idée reçu that Homeric characters have no secret or hidden thoughts. Intertextuality in its strict meaning, the conscious and purposive allusion by an author to other texts, is exemplified by M. van Erp's analysis of Theocritus' Thirteenth Idyll, which demonstrates, through its repeated invocations of Homer, the clash between the heroic world of Heracles and the unheroic world in which Hylas disappears. G. W. Most scrutinizes Plato's ingenious explication de texte in Protagoras and shows how "contextuality" provides a more reliable critical anchor than other approaches. |
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In the broader and more debated areas of critical theory, S. Goldhill explores the ramifications for the study of classical texts of work of Derrida and others, taking the theme of Helen's depiction in different Greek authors as a particularly striking "exemplarity". R.S. Caldwell applies Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytical theory to uncover the deeper significances of the Danaid trilogy as represented by Aeschylus' Supplices. Speech-Act theory, as pioneered by J.L. Austin (1962) and further explored by Searle (1969), is applied by R. Cohen as a new methodological tool for the investigation of certain plays of Plautus. D.P. Fowler demonstrates how the modern concept of "poetic closure" can provide valuable insights in the exploration of certain classical Latin texts. C. Segal brings the principles of modern hermeneutics to help unravel the Tereus' episode in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The important branch of Reader-Response theory, Jauss' aesthetics of reception, is critically analyzed by R. Nauta, who uses Horace's famous Soracte Ode as a touchstone of the theory. M. McDonald pursues the alternative route of examining the effects of the apprehension and transmutation of a classic text, Sophocles' Electra, by later artists (here Strauss' opera on the subject) and the insights, some feminist, into the original that are thereby generated. |
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Abrams M.H. (1989) Doing Things with Texts. Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory, ed. M. Fisher (New York-London: 1989). |
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Ackermann R. (1991) The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists (New Haven: 1991). |
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Arethusa 6 (1973), Women in Antiquity. |
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Arethusa 7 (1974), Psychoanalysis and the Classics. |
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Arethusa 8 (1975), Marxism and the Classics. |
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Arethusa 10 (1977), Classical Literature and Contemporary Literary Theory. |
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Arethusa 16 (1983), Semiotics and Classical Studies. |
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Arethusa 19 (1986), Audience-Oriented Criticism and the Classics. |
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Atkins C.D. and Morrow L. (1989) Contemporary Literary Theory (Boston: 1989). |
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Austin J.L. (1962) How to do Things with Words, ed. J.O. Urmson and M. Sbisa (Oxford: 1962). |
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