Metalepsis : Ancient Texts, New Perspectives
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 139959493
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198846987
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This 2020 volume began its life with the conference ‘Breaking and Entering: Metalepsis in Classical Literature’ (Oxford, 2015), jointly conceived and organized by the editors, and financed through an AHRC Early Career Fellowship awarded to Gail Trimble. I am sole author of the opening chapter ‘Back to the Future? Problems and Potential of Metalepsis avant Genette’ (pp.1–24) and I co-wrote with Trimble the substantive epilogue (pp.247–72). My chapter offers revisits and problematizes the current state of scholarly debate on metalepsis by mobilizing the perspectives of ancient grammarians and rhetoricians to critically think through current paradoxes and unresolved issues. A theoretically-oriented research chapter in its own right, it also maps out the volume’s overall field of enquiry and positions individual chapters within the coordinates it provides. The chapter developed from my opening paper at the conference where it proved formative for the subsequent discussion. Circulated in draft version to all contributors, it continued to serve this orienting function in the development of the contributors’ own lines of argument, making it the most referenced chapter within the volume (e.g. pp.30–4, 54–5, 60, 75, 82, 88, 99–100, 103–4, 143, 168, 171, 180, 195–7, 228, 230) and thus a key plank of the volume’s overall critical intervention. The co-authored epilogue not only takes stock of the volume’s insights but offers independent reflections on the volume’s conceptual recalibrations, thus setting the scene for future work in Classics and beyond. I worked closely with Trimble and the contributors to tie together the thematic and conceptual threads running through the book, collaborating with authors in developing the thinking of individual chapters (highlighted by individual contributors, e.g. pp.25, 59, 167, 223), suggesting revisions, integrating cross-references, ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency, and preparing the bibliography (pp.273–96) and two indices (pp.297–316).
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