Irene de Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene de Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | de Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Singer (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Herodotus’ Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage
A hot issue in Herodotean scholarship is the structure, or rather the apparent lack of structure, of his Histories. Scholars have been troubled by the 'mglichst bunte Folge Assoziationen unsachlicher Art'1 and the 'Zerrissenheit und Vielspaltigkeit dieses Geschichtswerkes, seiner aus ungezhlten Wirklichkeitspartikeln mosaikartig zusammengestuckelten Erscheinungsform' ,2 which means that at first sight the narratees feel 'buried under an avalanche…
The View From the Mountain ( Oroskopia ) in Greek and Latin Literature
This paper argues for the existence of the topos of oroskopia in Greek and Latin literature. Gods and mortals are positioned on mountains to watch events or landscapes below. The view from above symbolises power (in the case of the gods) or an attempt at control or desire for power (in the case of mortals). It may also suggest an agreeable and relaxed spectatorship with no active involvement in the events watched, which may metaphorically morph i…
Homer
Prolegomena
Homeric Poetics in Keywords (P)
The Helen Logos and Herodotus’ Fingerprint
Herodotus' discussion of the Trojan War in Histories 2.112-20 consists mainly of two strands: a historiographical evaluation of his sources, Homer and the Egyptian priests (116-17, 120), and the presentation of an alternative version (Helen never went to Troy but stayed in Egypt), as heard from the Egyptians (113-16, 118-19). Previous scholarship has focused on Herodotus' historiographical exercise (Neville 1977) and on determining the possible G…
Homer and Narratology
The term 'narratology' was coined in 1969 by T. Todorov. The aim of narratology is to provide a set of descriptional and analytical tools with which to tackle the narrativity of the texts under discussion. One of the defining elements of a narrative text is the presence of a subject of narration, the narrator, and beneficiaries of that narration, the narratees. In the case of the Homeric epics, the interest in the narrator has long centered aroun…
A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
Legende—Novelle—Roman
Homeric Conversation
Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive
Feinde—Gegner—Opfer. Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias
Where Narratology Meets Stylistics: The Seven Versions of Ajax’ Madness
The Homeric Narrator and His Own kleos
The Homeric narrator's celebrated reticence about his own person, work, and aspirations has led scholars to call him modest. In this paper I argue that there are enough implicit or indirect signs which point at a Homeric narrator himself aspiring to kleos, just like the heroes he celebrates
Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception sp…
Convention Versus Realism in the Homeric Epics
The Homeric epics are generally called realistic. The first part of this paper investigates what is meant by this label. It appears that there are in fact several forms of realism: historical, ontological, daily-life, and descriptive realism. In the second part it is shown that underneath this realistic surface many conventions lie hidden: highly stylized type-scenes form the basis of daily-life realism; the many speeches for which Homer is famou…
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume One
This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger …
The Anachronical Structure of Herodotus’ Structure of Histones
One of the most memorable scenes in the film The English Patient is when Almasy, having left behind his wounded lover Katherine in a cave in the desert, finally reaches a village and asks an English officer for a car so he can go back and save her. When the officer refuses, he desperately begs him to give him a car, any car: ‘just give me the fucking car.’ Not many viewers win realize that this scene in fact has been subtly prepared for in the fi…
Michael Reichel, Fernbeziehungen in der Ilias (Script-Oralia 62, Reihe A: (Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, 13). TÜbingen, GÜnter Narr Verlag, 1994. XI, 397 p
De Novis Libris Iudicia
Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception sp…
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume One
This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger …
The Homeric Narrator and His Own kleos
The Homeric narrator's celebrated reticence about his own person, work, and aspirations has led scholars to call him modest. In this paper I argue that there are enough implicit or indirect signs which point at a Homeric narrator himself aspiring to kleos, just like the heroes he celebrates
Convention Versus Realism in the Homeric Epics
The Homeric epics are generally called realistic. The first part of this paper investigates what is meant by this label. It appears that there are in fact several forms of realism: historical, ontological, daily-life, and descriptive realism. In the second part it is shown that underneath this realistic surface many conventions lie hidden: highly stylized type-scenes form the basis of daily-life realism; the many speeches for which Homer is famou…
The View From the Mountain ( Oroskopia ) in Greek and Latin Literature
This paper argues for the existence of the topos of oroskopia in Greek and Latin literature. Gods and mortals are positioned on mountains to watch events or landscapes below. The view from above symbolises power (in the case of the gods) or an attempt at control or desire for power (in the case of mortals). It may also suggest an agreeable and relaxed spectatorship with no active involvement in the events watched, which may metaphorically morph i…
De Novis Libris Iudicia
Michael Reichel, Fernbeziehungen in der Ilias (Script-Oralia 62, Reihe A: (Altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, 13). TÜbingen, GÜnter Narr Verlag, 1994. XI, 397 p
The Anachronical Structure of Herodotus’ Structure of Histones
One of the most memorable scenes in the film The English Patient is when Almasy, having left behind his wounded lover Katherine in a cave in the desert, finally reaches a village and asks an English officer for a car so he can go back and save her. When the officer refuses, he desperately begs him to give him a car, any car: ‘just give me the fucking car.’ Not many viewers win realize that this scene in fact has been subtly prepared for in the fi…
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume One
This is the first in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees, time, focalization, characterization, description, speech, and plot. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device by individual authors, but also a larger …
Convention Versus Realism in the Homeric Epics
The Homeric epics are generally called realistic. The first part of this paper investigates what is meant by this label. It appears that there are in fact several forms of realism: historical, ontological, daily-life, and descriptive realism. In the second part it is shown that underneath this realistic surface many conventions lie hidden: highly stylized type-scenes form the basis of daily-life realism; the many speeches for which Homer is famou…
Where Narratology Meets Stylistics: The Seven Versions of Ajax’ Madness
The Homeric Narrator and His Own kleos
The Homeric narrator's celebrated reticence about his own person, work, and aspirations has led scholars to call him modest. In this paper I argue that there are enough implicit or indirect signs which point at a Homeric narrator himself aspiring to kleos, just like the heroes he celebrates
Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception sp…
Feinde—Gegner—Opfer. Zur Darstellung der Troianer in den Kampfszenen der Ilias
Homeric Conversation
Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive
A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
Legende—Novelle—Roman
Homer and Narratology
The term 'narratology' was coined in 1969 by T. Todorov. The aim of narratology is to provide a set of descriptional and analytical tools with which to tackle the narrativity of the texts under discussion. One of the defining elements of a narrative text is the presence of a subject of narration, the narrator, and beneficiaries of that narration, the narratees. In the case of the Homeric epics, the interest in the narrator has long centered aroun…
The Helen Logos and Herodotus’ Fingerprint
Herodotus' discussion of the Trojan War in Histories 2.112-20 consists mainly of two strands: a historiographical evaluation of his sources, Homer and the Egyptian priests (116-17, 120), and the presentation of an alternative version (Helen never went to Troy but stayed in Egypt), as heard from the Egyptians (113-16, 118-19). Previous scholarship has focused on Herodotus' historiographical exercise (Neville 1977) and on determining the possible G…
Prolegomena
Homeric Poetics in Keywords (P)
Homer
Herodotus’ Handling of (Narratological) Time in the Thermopylae Passage
A hot issue in Herodotean scholarship is the structure, or rather the apparent lack of structure, of his Histories. Scholars have been troubled by the 'mglichst bunte Folge Assoziationen unsachlicher Art'1 and the 'Zerrissenheit und Vielspaltigkeit dieses Geschichtswerkes, seiner aus ungezhlten Wirklichkeitspartikeln mosaikartig zusammengestuckelten Erscheinungsform' ,2 which means that at first sight the narratees feel 'buried under an avalanche…
The View From the Mountain ( Oroskopia ) in Greek and Latin Literature
This paper argues for the existence of the topos of oroskopia in Greek and Latin literature. Gods and mortals are positioned on mountains to watch events or landscapes below. The view from above symbolises power (in the case of the gods) or an attempt at control or desire for power (in the case of mortals). It may also suggest an agreeable and relaxed spectatorship with no active involvement in the events watched, which may metaphorically morph i…
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