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SUSPENSE IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE GEBUNDEN

The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship 
but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work analysing the techniques of suspense through
the various genres of the Classical literary canon. This volume aspires to fill such a gap 
exploring the phenomenon of suspense in the earliest narrative writings of the western world 
the literature of the ancient Greeks. The individual chapters focus on a wide range of poetic
and prose genres (epic  drama  historiography  oratory  novel  and works of literary criticism)
and examine the means by which ancient authors elicited emotions of tense expectation and
fearful anticipation for the outcome of the story  the development of the plot  or the
characters' fate. A variety of theoretical tools  from narratology and performance studies to
psychological and cognitive approaches  are exploited to study the operation of suspense in the
works under discussion. Suspenseful effects are analysed in adouble perspective  both in terms
of the artifices employed by authors and with regard to the responses and experiences of the
audience. The volume will be useful to classical scholars  narratologists  and literary
historians and theorists.

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