Judith Fletcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Fletcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Fletcher |
| SIGNATURE | FLETCHER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’ Argonautica
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze
Stories of a visit to the realm of the dead and a return to the upper world are among the oldest narratives in European literature, beginning with Homer’s Odyssey and extending to contemporary culture. This volume examines a series of fictional works by twentieth- and twenty-first century authors, such Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, which deal in various ways with the descent to Hades. Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture surveys a …
Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body
The Catabasis of Mattie Ross in the Coens’ True Grit
This paper argues that the Coen Brothers’ 2010 version of True Grit makes innovations to the original novel by Charles Portis that evoke the Greek myth of the descent to the underworld, or catabasis . Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl on mission to find her father’s murderer, embarks on a quest that ends with her falling into a snake pit after she kills the culprit. The experience can be likened to a heroic quest, especially in the context of…
Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Ajax
This chapter focuses on the dynamic network linking objects, bodies, text and audience in two Sophoclean dramas that accord great importance to stage properties, specifically the bow of Philoctetes and the sword of Ajax. It is significant not only that both these props are weapons, but also that these weapons are, rather paradoxically, gifts that evoke the protocols of ritual friendship. Philoctetes’ bow is certainly one of the most significant s…
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best inter…
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Tragedy by N. J. Sewell-Rutter
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Tragedy. By N. J. Sewell-Rutter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 202. Students of Greek tragedy are well acquainted with the phenomenon of multiple determination: characters such as Agamemnon or Oedipus, caught in the grip of some inexorable power—fate, a curse, or a capricious god—simultaneously contribute to their own catastrophe by choices th…
Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society
The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields; but they have never been the object of a comprehensive, systematic study. This book derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and comprises seventeen chapters by experts in law, in political and social history, in literary criticism, and in cross-cultural studies, exploring the subject from a broad spect…
A Trickster'S Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Hermes' maturation into a god of commerce and diplomacy is punctuated by a series of oaths. At first he uses tricky or unsworn oaths in the investigation of his theft of Apollo's cattle, but eventually he and Apollo exchange oaths that evoke the protocols of ritualized friendship. Although the ceremony suggests that Hermes has achieved adulthood, a narrative sleight of hand leaves some ambiguity about the completion of the ritual
The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus
"Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon
Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Judith Fletcher Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon shares with Homer's Odyssey a profound concern with naming. Names are obscured, replaced, and eventually revealed in both epic poem and novel.1 They possess a transformative power at times: Odysseus does indeed become No Man, the name he uses to trick the Cyclops, when he arrives home as a nameless beggar; in Morrison's novel the man whose name is …
Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play
Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession (review)
Reviewed by: Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession Judith Fletcher Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xxxi + 510. $100.00 cloth. Theatre was arguably the most ephemeral cultural product of the ancient world. Its fragmentary remains record only the libretti of a complex art that included recitation, instrumental and v…
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
Women and Oaths in Euripides
The plots of three Euripidean tragedies, the Medea, the Hippolytus, and the Iphigenia at Aulis, are driven by oaths sworn by men to women. Women gain control not only of men's language and action, a distortion of the normative social hegemony, but also of the script itself. In all three plays women's power is substantiated by additional oaths of solidarity sworn by female choruses. The catastrophes of the Medea and the Hippolytus are direct conse…
Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece
Exchanging Glances: Vision and Representation in Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Age-specific mortality rates level off at older ages in genetically homogeneous experimental populations of Drosophila. Here we describe an experiment that is informative about the causes of mortality rate changes. By applying a brief, nondebilitating stress that increases mortality early in life and then observing subsequent mortality trajectories, it is possible to determine whether populations are heterogeneous for factors influencing mortalit…
"Choral Voice and Narrative in the First Stasimon of Aeschylus "Agamemnon
WHOSE VOICE DO WE HEAR in a choral ode? For many it is the voice of the and if we define the poet as the speaker of truth and ultimate narrative authority, we can indeed hear the chorus making authorial-sounding comments.1 But does the chorus always speak the truth? The chorus is in the drama, and has a well-defined persona which often reveals a limited understanding of dramatic events.2 Does this mean then that everything it says derives from it…
Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece
Exchanging Glances: Vision and Representation in Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Age-specific mortality rates level off at older ages in genetically homogeneous experimental populations of Drosophila. Here we describe an experiment that is informative about the causes of mortality rate changes. By applying a brief, nondebilitating stress that increases mortality early in life and then observing subsequent mortality trajectories, it is possible to determine whether populations are heterogeneous for factors influencing mortalit…
A Trickster'S Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Hermes' maturation into a god of commerce and diplomacy is punctuated by a series of oaths. At first he uses tricky or unsworn oaths in the investigation of his theft of Apollo's cattle, but eventually he and Apollo exchange oaths that evoke the protocols of ritualized friendship. Although the ceremony suggests that Hermes has achieved adulthood, a narrative sleight of hand leaves some ambiguity about the completion of the ritual
Women and Oaths in Euripides
The plots of three Euripidean tragedies, the Medea, the Hippolytus, and the Iphigenia at Aulis, are driven by oaths sworn by men to women. Women gain control not only of men's language and action, a distortion of the normative social hegemony, but also of the script itself. In all three plays women's power is substantiated by additional oaths of solidarity sworn by female choruses. The catastrophes of the Medea and the Hippolytus are direct conse…
Exchanging Glances: Vision and Representation in Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Age-specific mortality rates level off at older ages in genetically homogeneous experimental populations of Drosophila. Here we describe an experiment that is informative about the causes of mortality rate changes. By applying a brief, nondebilitating stress that increases mortality early in life and then observing subsequent mortality trajectories, it is possible to determine whether populations are heterogeneous for factors influencing mortalit…
"Choral Voice and Narrative in the First Stasimon of Aeschylus "Agamemnon
WHOSE VOICE DO WE HEAR in a choral ode? For many it is the voice of the and if we define the poet as the speaker of truth and ultimate narrative authority, we can indeed hear the chorus making authorial-sounding comments.1 But does the chorus always speak the truth? The chorus is in the drama, and has a well-defined persona which often reveals a limited understanding of dramatic events.2 Does this mean then that everything it says derives from it…
Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece
Women and Oaths in Euripides
The plots of three Euripidean tragedies, the Medea, the Hippolytus, and the Iphigenia at Aulis, are driven by oaths sworn by men to women. Women gain control not only of men's language and action, a distortion of the normative social hegemony, but also of the script itself. In all three plays women's power is substantiated by additional oaths of solidarity sworn by female choruses. The catastrophes of the Medea and the Hippolytus are direct conse…
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play
Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession (review)
Reviewed by: Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession Judith Fletcher Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession. Edited by Pat Easterling and Edith Hall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xxxi + 510. $100.00 cloth. Theatre was arguably the most ephemeral cultural product of the ancient world. Its fragmentary remains record only the libretti of a complex art that included recitation, instrumental and v…
"Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon
Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
Signifying Circe in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Judith Fletcher Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon shares with Homer's Odyssey a profound concern with naming. Names are obscured, replaced, and eventually revealed in both epic poem and novel.1 They possess a transformative power at times: Odysseus does indeed become No Man, the name he uses to trick the Cyclops, when he arrives home as a nameless beggar; in Morrison's novel the man whose name is …
The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus
Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society
The importance of oaths to ancient Greek culture can hardly be overstated, especially in the political and judicial fields; but they have never been the object of a comprehensive, systematic study. This book derives from a research project on the oath in ancient Greece, and comprises seventeen chapters by experts in law, in political and social history, in literary criticism, and in cross-cultural studies, exploring the subject from a broad spect…
A Trickster'S Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Hermes' maturation into a god of commerce and diplomacy is punctuated by a series of oaths. At first he uses tricky or unsworn oaths in the investigation of his theft of Apollo's cattle, but eventually he and Apollo exchange oaths that evoke the protocols of ritualized friendship. Although the ceremony suggests that Hermes has achieved adulthood, a narrative sleight of hand leaves some ambiguity about the completion of the ritual
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Tragedy by N. J. Sewell-Rutter
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Tragedy. By N. J. Sewell-Rutter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. Pp. xiv, 202. Students of Greek tragedy are well acquainted with the phenomenon of multiple determination: characters such as Agamemnon or Oedipus, caught in the grip of some inexorable power—fate, a curse, or a capricious god—simultaneously contribute to their own catastrophe by choices th…
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like Euripides' Hippolytus to act contrary to their best inter…
Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Ajax
This chapter focuses on the dynamic network linking objects, bodies, text and audience in two Sophoclean dramas that accord great importance to stage properties, specifically the bow of Philoctetes and the sword of Ajax. It is significant not only that both these props are weapons, but also that these weapons are, rather paradoxically, gifts that evoke the protocols of ritual friendship. Philoctetes’ bow is certainly one of the most significant s…
The Catabasis of Mattie Ross in the Coens’ True Grit
This paper argues that the Coen Brothers’ 2010 version of True Grit makes innovations to the original novel by Charles Portis that evoke the Greek myth of the descent to the underworld, or catabasis . Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl on mission to find her father’s murderer, embarks on a quest that ends with her falling into a snake pit after she kills the culprit. The experience can be likened to a heroic quest, especially in the context of…
Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Unpossessed Body
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze
Stories of a visit to the realm of the dead and a return to the upper world are among the oldest narratives in European literature, beginning with Homer’s Odyssey and extending to contemporary culture. This volume examines a series of fictional works by twentieth- and twenty-first century authors, such Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante, which deal in various ways with the descent to Hades. Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture surveys a …
Lemnian Infamy and Masculine Glory in Apollonios’ Argonautica
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