TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkelberg,Margalit
TI  - The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues
T2  - Brill's Plato Studies Series
SN  - 9789004390027
AV  - B395 .F565 2019 
U1  - 184 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Plato.-Dialogues
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1 "Diegesis through mimesis": Classification of Narrative Genres in Republic 3 -- 2 The Theaetetus Passage -- 3 Plato as Literary Author -- 4 Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues -- 5 Plato's Narrator and Narrative Theory: Some Necessary Adjustments -- Part 1: The Dialogues -- 2 The Explicit Narrator: Narrated Dialogues -- 1 Introducing the Narrated Dialogues -- 2 A Single Narrator (the Charmides, Lysis, Republic) -- 3 Multiple Narrators (the Parmenides) -- 4 Conclusions -- 3 The Implicit Narrator: Dramatic Dialogues -- 1 Introducing the Dramatic Dialogues -- 2 The Theaetetus as a Test Case -- 3 Bifocality or a Single Focus of Perception? (the Euthyphro, Crito, Menexenus vs. the Ion and Hippias Maior) -- 4 An Implicit Narrator-Hero (the Cratylus, Meno, Phaedrus, Laws) -- 5 An Implicit Narrator-Observer (the Hippias Minor, Laches, Gorgias, Philebus) -- 6 Socrates as an Implicit Narrator-Observer (the Sophist, Statesman, Timaeus, Critias) -- 7 Conclusions -- 4 The Explicit and the Implicit Narrator Combined: Mixed Dialogues -- 1 Introducing the Mixed Dialogues -- 2 The Protagoras -- 3 The Euthydemus -- 4 The Phaedo -- 5 The Symposium -- 6 The Theaetetus -- 7 Conclusions -- Part 2: The Interpretation -- 5 Plato's Experiments with Narrative Voice -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 A Single Focus of Perception -- 3 Multiple Narrative Levels -- 4 Abandonment of the Narrated Form -- 5 Conclusions -- 6 The Limits of Authority -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 The Narrator's Text -- 3 Change of Interlocutor -- 4 Metanarrative Comments -- 5 Distribution and Clustering: Three Case Studies -- 6 Conclusions -- 7 The Narrator and the Author -- 1 Poetry and Painting in Republic 10 -- 2 The Body of the Dialogue; 3 The Gardens of Adonis -- 4 Mimesis and Reality -- 5 Representation of Narration -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- General Index
N2  - In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato's transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to the issue of narrative perspective
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