The door ajar
Subtitle: false closure in Greek and Roman literature and art
By: edited by Farouk F. Grewing, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Alexander Kirichenko
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Bd. 132; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 132.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9783825356972
Subjects: Greek poetry; History and criticism; Latin poetry; Hellenistic Greek poetry; Classical literature; Intertextuality; Closure (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : is this the end? --; title: Questioning closure --; title: Ethical attachments and the end of Sophocles' Oedipus the King  -- Francis Dunn; title: False closure and deception  -- Christian Kaesser; title: Sliding doors : the falsity of closure in Pliny's Epistles  -- Christopher Whitton; title: Time, space, and closure --; title: Minding the gap : aetiology and (false) closure  -- Markus Asper; title: Foundation and closure  -- Michèle Lowrie; title: (En)closure and rupture : roman poetry in the arena  -- Victoria Rimell; title: Looking at closure --; title: History and its margins in the pictorial narrative of the Nile Mosaic at Praeneste  -- Gloria Ferrari; title: Closing the ring : epic cycles in the Tabulae Iliacae and other roman visual narratives of the Trojan war  -- David Petrain; title: Picturing words and wording pictures : false closure in the Pompeian Casa degli Epigrammi  -- Michael Squire; title: Performing closure / reading false closure --; title: The never-ending stories : a perspective on Greek hymns  -- Ivana Petrovic; title: Reading false closure in(to) Propertian Elegy  -- Jonathan Wallis; title: Sit pudor et finis : false closure in ancient epigram  -- Regina Höschele; title: False closure, true lies and a never ending story : romantic Aesthetics, Lucian's Verae Historiae and a fragmentary ending  -- Manuel Baumbach; title: Mimesis, metamorphosis, and false closure in Apuleius' Golden Ass  -- Alexander Kirichenko; title: Beyond closure --; title: Fame : the last word? -- Philip Hardie-- Epilogue-- Works cited-- Index locoram.