Letters of Alciphron

Michèle Biraud, Ph.D. (1987), Sorbonne-Paris IV University, is Professor of Greek Linguistics and Poetics at University Cote d’Azur and member of BCL (CNRS). She has published books about Determiners, Interjections, and papers concerning stress-based rhythm in Imperial Greek prose.Arnaud Zucker, Ph.D (1994), EPHE Paris, is Professor of Greek Literature at University Côte d’Azur and Deputy Director of CEPAM (CNRS). He has published books, translations (Parthenius, Physiologus, Aelian, Philogelos) and papers especially on ancient zoology, astronomy and mythography.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Structural Perspectives1 On the Structure of Alciphron’s LettersÉmeline Marquis2 Order and Disorder in the Letters of AlciphronAndrew Morrison3 Time to Eat: Chronological Connections in Alciphron’s Letters of ParasitesEmilia Barbiero4 Echoes of Stress-Based Rhythms in the Letters of Fishermen: Poetic, Rhetoric and Structural AspectsMichèle BiraudPart 2 Cultural Issues and Backgrounds5 Alciphron’s Reception of Oral and Literary Traditions: Mythical References and Comparisons in Alciphron’s LettersSophie Schoess6 Women’s Voices: Four or Five Women’s Letters in AlciphronOnofrio Vox7 The Sea of AlciphronGiuseppe Zanetto8 Nostalgic Authority: Alciphron’s Use of Visual CultureMelissa FunkePart 3 Generic Tensions and Innovations9 Different Forms of Generic Tension between Epistolary Precepts and Progymnasmatical Rhetoric in the Letters of AlciphronRafael J. Gallé Cejudo10 Typecast? Speaking Names in Alciphron’s LettersOwen Hodkinson11 ‘Laus vitae rusticae’: Conventionality, Imitation, VariationTiziana Drago12 Close Encounters with the Hetaira: Reading Alciphron’s Book 4Yvonne RöschBibliographyIndex NominumIndex RerumIndex Locorum