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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: cast of character
    sub title: style in Greek literature
  name:
    name part: Worman, Nancy Baker
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: us
    place:
      place term: Austin
    publisher: University of Texas Press
    date issued: 2002
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 274 σ. ; 24 εκ.
  abstract: "Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings, their sense of style included not only the characters' manner of speaking, but also their appearance and deportment. From Homeric epic to classical tragedy and oratory, verbal and visual cues work hand-in-hand to create distinctive styles for literary characters." "In this book, Nancy Worman investigates the development and evolution of ideas about style in archaic and classical literature through a study of representations of Odysseus and Helen. She demonstrates that, as liars and imitators, pleasing storytellers, and adept users of costume, these two figures are especially skillful manipulators of style. In tracing the way literary representations of them changed through time - from Homer's positive portrayal of their subtle self-presentations to the sharply polarized portrayals of these same subtleties in classical tragedy and oratory - Worman also uncovers a nascent awareness among the Greek writers that style may be used not only to persuade but also to distract and deceive."-- Εξώφυλλο.
  table of contents: 1. Kosmos and the Typical Casts of Character -- 2. Oral Performance, Speech Types, and Typical Styles in Homer -- 3. Visible Types and Visualizing Styles in Archaic Poetry -- 4. Verbal Masquerade and Visual Impact in Tragedy -- 5. Manipulating the Senses in Rhetorical Set Pieces.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Nancy Worman.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Ελληνική λογοτεχνία, Αρχαία
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Ελληνική γλώσσα
    topic: Ύφος
  classification: 880.9
  identifier: 0292791550 (hc : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2002028636
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  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002028636.html
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171101
    record change date: 20210117210509.0
    record identifier: 12854726
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre