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The Door Ajar : False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art.

When is ""closure"" in fact ""false closure"", the deceptive opposite of apparent conclusion or perfection? 2009 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Don Fowler's seminal essay ""First Thoughts on Closure: Problems and Prospect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grewing, Farouk F.
Otros Autores: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Kirichenko, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
Colección:Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Is this the End?; I. Questioning Closure; Francis M. Dunn: Ethical Attachments and the End of Sophocles' Oedipus the King; Christian Kaesser: False Closure and Deception; Christopher Whitton: Trapdoors: The Falsity of Closure in Pliny's Epistles; II. Time, Space, and Closure; Markus Asper: Minding the Gap: Aetiology and (False) Closure; Michèle Lowrie: Foundation and Closure; Victoria Rimell: (En)closure and Rupture: Roman Poetry in the Arena; III. Looking at Closure.
  • Gloria Ferrari: History and its Margins in the Pictorial Narrative of the Nile Mosaic at PraenesteDavid Petrain: Closing the Ring: Epic Cycles in theTabulae Iliacae and Other Roman Visual Narratives of the Trojan War; Michael Squire: Picturing Words and Wording Pictures: False Closure in the Pompeian Casa degli Epigrammi; IV. Reading False Closure; Ivana Petrovic: Never-Ending Stories: A Perspective on Greek Hymns; Jonathan Wallis: Reading False Closure in(to) Propertian Elegy; Regina Höschele: Sit pudor et finis: False Closure in Ancient Epigram.
  • Manuel Baumbach: False Closure, TrueLies and a Never Ending Story: Romantic Aesthetics, Lucian's Verae Historiae and a Fragmentary EndingAlexander Kirichenko: Mimesis, Metamorphosis, and False Closure in Apuleius' GoldenAss; V. Beyond Closure; Philip Hardie: Fame- the Last Word?; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index locorum.