Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- UOA26-2727
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004288133
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output consists of the following: the Introduction (pp. 1-16) and the editorial contribution in the conception and curation of the project (50% each editor); the Glossary of narratological terms and terms from the study of ancient hymns (pp. viii-ix), and Hodkinson’s own substantial chapter (pp.139-64) (both 100% Hodkinson). Although the volume originated in a conference (2009), the output is not merely a published conference proceedings, since it includes only a selection of the original conference papers, and also includes specially commissioned additional chapters (chs. 3, 4, and 10-12, i.e. almost half the chapters), which were not part of the conference. The introduction sets out methodological groundwork and aims, to facilitate and begin the systematic study of the (pagan) Greek hymn genre in narratological terms, in all its forms and modes of transmission (i.e. including hymns preserved on papyrus and in inscriptions as well as literary transmission), and throughout all of classical to late antiquity. This enabled for the first time: a) a detailed overview of the developments of the Greek hymn genre’s uses and techniques of narrative over time; b) detailed comparison between individual hymn composers’ practices, both diachronically and synchronically, and between other subsets within the large hymnic tradition; c) in most instances, beyond the more well-studied case studies (e.g. Homeric and Callimachean Hymns) the first narratological study in its own right of the text focused on in each chapter. Editorial contribution included commissioning chapters by world-leading experts to ensure a very high level throughout and wide coverage of the genre; encouraging collaboration and cross-referencing between chapters, as well as including the comparative Glossary, to ensure the volume is greater than the sum of its parts and works as point of departure and reference work for scholarship familiar with hymns but not narratology, or vice versa.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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