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Radical cognition: metalepsis in classical greek drama*
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The movie Stranger than Fiction (2006) as mentioned in this paper centres on a tax inspector, Harold Crick, who begins to hear a voice inside his head. This voice, he gradually realizes, belongs to the narrator of a book in which he is the central character.Abstract:
The Hollywood movie Stranger than Fiction (2006) centres on a tax inspector, Harold Crick, who begins to hear a voice inside his head. This voice, he gradually realizes, belongs to the narrator of a book in which he is the central character. As the plot unfurls, the narrator begins to drop hints that Harold will die at the end of the story. Understandably disturbed by these intimations, Harold decides to confront a university professor, and between the two of them they identify the author as one Kay Eiffel. Harold then tracks down the author and begs her not to kill him off.read more
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On the sauce: cratinus, cyclopean poetics, and the roiling sea of epic
TL;DR: Revermann as discussed by the authors suggests that Cratinus conceives his mise en scene of Book 9 of the Odyssey as a fi gurative representation, which is the best-preserved comic spoof of the epic encounter between Odysseis and the Cyclops.
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The poet and the evangelist in nonnus’ paraphrase of the gospel according to john
TL;DR: The fifth-century Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John as mentioned in this paper is an anomaly in this tradition, as it has no prooemium, epilogue or interlude, and its narrator never identifies himself.
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Anachronism and Artifice: Cultural Retrospection in Book 2 of Statius’ Thebaid
TL;DR: This article examined anachronistic details in two scenes of Thebaid 2, namely the depiction of ancestor images in Adrastus' atria and Tydeus' vow of a victory temple.
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“Então não verias o divino Agamêmnon com preguiça” (Il. 4. 223): um caso de apóstrofe na Ilíada? “Then you would not have seen godlike Agamemnon slumbering” (Il. 4. 223): an apostrophe case in the Iliad?
TL;DR: The authors discusses the addresses directed to the primary narratee in the Iliad in order to determine if they can be considered apostrophes, that is, if they are poetical homologues to the Apostrophes to characters.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories.
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The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology
TL;DR: The role and importance of the Great Dionysia in the history of the polis has been explored in a number of ways, e.g. by as discussed by the authors, who argued that the festival is a place of entertainment rather than religious ritual, and that the plays should be approached primarily as dramatic performances.