Lynn Kozak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1103396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynn Kozak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kozak |
| SIGNATURE | KOZAK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Keeping Up with the Kings
This article performs a close reading and quantitative analysis of the five shows of Robert and Michelle King—The Good Wife, BrainDead, The Good Fight, Evil, and The Bite—with respect to the series’ formal textual and paratextual elements. Comparing both the use of recaps and the lengths and “coldness” of opening sequences, this article argues that the Kings developed most of their aesthetic innovations within the broadcast context before further…
Homeric Intimacy in NBC’s Hannibal (2013–2015)
Re-considering Epic and TV
This article builds on Kozak’s 2016 monograph, Experiencing Hektor, which argued for using television narrative strategies to re-conceptualise ancient Greek oral epic. Inverting this dynamic, this article looks at how certain features of ancient oral epic can be useful in considering television’s narrative strategies, especially when it comes to repetitive narrative elements, from diverse forms of type-scenes to repeated phrases, character epithe…
The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides’ Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
Poppies, scarlet flowers, ‘this beauty’: H.D.’s Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the First World War
Modernist poet H.D.’s experimental translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis (1916), published during WWI, shows H.D. pursuing this project to explore how wartime can provide opportunity for women to achieve extraordinary cultural authority in positions not generally afforded women, such as those of direct witness, storyteller and news-bringer, and heroic sacrificial victim. This translation project both registered and fostered the emergence o…
Experiencing Hektor: Character in the Iliad
At the Iliad's climax, the great Trojan hero Hektor falls at the hands of Achilles. But who is Hektor? He has resonated with audiences as a tragic hero, great warrior, loyal husband and father, protector of a doomed city. Yet never has a major work sought to discover how these different aspects of Hektor’s character accumulate over the course of the narrative to create the devastating effect of his death. This book documents the experience of Hek…
Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Melissa Mueller
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 403 different forms, each contains variations on themes familiar from the odes for Hieron that ultimately reinforce his superlative rule. The Conclusion summarizes the book’s arguments and briefly compares Pindar’s odes for Hieron with odes for other monarchs: the Battidai of Cyrene and the Emmenidai of Akragas. In contrast to both, Hieron’s rule was not a hereditary monarchy. It was precisely Hieron’s unique status th…
Oaths and characterization: Two Homeric case studies
Achilles has long been said by scholars to be an exceptional character in the Iliad, particularly in his use of language.1This also applies to Achilles' oaths, which show several unique linguistic usages.This section will look at all three of Achilles' oaths in the Iliad, and analyse them both in terms of their oath features and of how they relate to Achilles' character more generally within the epic.There are two other scenes in the epic where a…
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama by Judith Fletcher
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 187 and in detail. But these are also matters that have little directly to do with the announced topic of her book, and which might better have been treated in footnotes or even separate publications, rather than being allowed to take over the discussion here to no obvious immediate purpose and little clear argumentative effect. At the same time, Corbel-Morana tends to leap disconcertingly from matters of detail to gra…
Character and Context in the Rebuke Exchange of Iliad 17.142–184
This article focuses on the rebuke exchange between Hektor and Glaukos at the beginning of Iliad 17. Responding to previous work on the scene, especially that of Carroll Moulton and Bernard Fenik, this work aims to show the richness and complexity of context and character in scenes that can often be seen as simply typical, and asserts that variation in typology appears not only in language, but also in character-specific motivations and responses…
Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in celebration of the completion of the edition of the Comedies of Aristophanes by Alan Sommerstein
Experiencing Hektor: Character in the Iliad
At the Iliad's climax, the great Trojan hero Hektor falls at the hands of Achilles. But who is Hektor? He has resonated with audiences as a tragic hero, great warrior, loyal husband and father, protector of a doomed city. Yet never has a major work sought to discover how these different aspects of Hektor’s character accumulate over the course of the narrative to create the devastating effect of his death. This book documents the experience of Hek…
Poppies, scarlet flowers, ‘this beauty’: H.D.’s Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the First World War
Modernist poet H.D.’s experimental translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis (1916), published during WWI, shows H.D. pursuing this project to explore how wartime can provide opportunity for women to achieve extraordinary cultural authority in positions not generally afforded women, such as those of direct witness, storyteller and news-bringer, and heroic sacrificial victim. This translation project both registered and fostered the emergence o…
Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in celebration of the completion of the edition of the Comedies of Aristophanes by Alan Sommerstein
Character and Context in the Rebuke Exchange of Iliad 17.142–184
This article focuses on the rebuke exchange between Hektor and Glaukos at the beginning of Iliad 17. Responding to previous work on the scene, especially that of Carroll Moulton and Bernard Fenik, this work aims to show the richness and complexity of context and character in scenes that can often be seen as simply typical, and asserts that variation in typology appears not only in language, but also in character-specific motivations and responses…
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama by Judith Fletcher
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 187 and in detail. But these are also matters that have little directly to do with the announced topic of her book, and which might better have been treated in footnotes or even separate publications, rather than being allowed to take over the discussion here to no obvious immediate purpose and little clear argumentative effect. At the same time, Corbel-Morana tends to leap disconcertingly from matters of detail to gra…
Oaths and characterization: Two Homeric case studies
Achilles has long been said by scholars to be an exceptional character in the Iliad, particularly in his use of language.1This also applies to Achilles' oaths, which show several unique linguistic usages.This section will look at all three of Achilles' oaths in the Iliad, and analyse them both in terms of their oath features and of how they relate to Achilles' character more generally within the epic.There are two other scenes in the epic where a…
Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Melissa Mueller
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 403 different forms, each contains variations on themes familiar from the odes for Hieron that ultimately reinforce his superlative rule. The Conclusion summarizes the book’s arguments and briefly compares Pindar’s odes for Hieron with odes for other monarchs: the Battidai of Cyrene and the Emmenidai of Akragas. In contrast to both, Hieron’s rule was not a hereditary monarchy. It was precisely Hieron’s unique status th…
Experiencing Hektor: Character in the Iliad
At the Iliad's climax, the great Trojan hero Hektor falls at the hands of Achilles. But who is Hektor? He has resonated with audiences as a tragic hero, great warrior, loyal husband and father, protector of a doomed city. Yet never has a major work sought to discover how these different aspects of Hektor’s character accumulate over the course of the narrative to create the devastating effect of his death. This book documents the experience of Hek…
Poppies, scarlet flowers, ‘this beauty’: H.D.’s Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the First World War
Modernist poet H.D.’s experimental translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis (1916), published during WWI, shows H.D. pursuing this project to explore how wartime can provide opportunity for women to achieve extraordinary cultural authority in positions not generally afforded women, such as those of direct witness, storyteller and news-bringer, and heroic sacrificial victim. This translation project both registered and fostered the emergence o…
The Classics in Modernist Translation
This volume sheds new light on a wealth of early 20th-century engagement with literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity that significantly shaped the work of anglophone literary modernism. The essays spotlight ‘translation’, a concept the modernists themselves used to reckon with the Classics and to denote a range of different kinds of reception – from more literal to more liberal translation work, as well as forms of what contemporary reception studi…
The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides’ Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War
The emergence of Thucydides as an influential political thinker in the first half of the twentieth century has been astonishingly neglected by modern scholars. This volume examines how, why, and when the Athenian historical came to occupy such a prominent position in political discourse in the US and Europe today. It argues that in the years before, during, and after the Great War Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was mined for the ins…
Homeric Intimacy in NBC’s Hannibal (2013–2015)
Re-considering Epic and TV
This article builds on Kozak’s 2016 monograph, Experiencing Hektor, which argued for using television narrative strategies to re-conceptualise ancient Greek oral epic. Inverting this dynamic, this article looks at how certain features of ancient oral epic can be useful in considering television’s narrative strategies, especially when it comes to repetitive narrative elements, from diverse forms of type-scenes to repeated phrases, character epithe…
Keeping Up with the Kings
This article performs a close reading and quantitative analysis of the five shows of Robert and Michelle King—The Good Wife, BrainDead, The Good Fight, Evil, and The Bite—with respect to the series’ formal textual and paratextual elements. Comparing both the use of recaps and the lengths and “coldness” of opening sequences, this article argues that the Kings developed most of their aesthetic innovations within the broadcast context before further…
Truth in the Late Foucault: Antiquity, Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault’s engagement with ancient philosophy and thought. Truth in the Late Foucault offers readings on Plato, Artemidorus, Cicero, Sophocles and the Stoics, and pays close atte…
Art (11 works) · Literature (10 works) · History (9 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Poetics (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)