Articles & Reviews by Robert Kirstein
In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 239-272 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
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In: Simon Grund, Robert Kirstein, and Julian Wagner (eds.), Ambiguity and Narratology. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Diachronic Case Studies, 3-6 (Narratologia, Vol. 92), 2024
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In: Edoardo Galfré, Christoph Schubert (eds.), Suétone narrateur. Biographie und Erzählung in De vita Caesarum, Berlin: de Gruyter, 163-181 (Millenium Studiues Vol. 106), 2024
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In: Peter Hühn, John Pier, and Wolf Schmid (eds.), Handbook of Diachronic Narratology, Berlin: de Gruyter, 84-104 (Narratologia Vol. 86), 2023
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In: Spyridon Tzounakas, Stella Alekou, Stephen Harrison (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture, Berlin: de Gruyter, 87-102 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 139), 2023
The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues ... more The chapter takes its starting point from the aspect of beauty in the Pygmalion story. It argues that symmetry and balance play a key role, for example in the structure of the episode or in the change of focalization between Orpheus and Pygmalion. Since balance is also, at least in part, a fundamentally physical and bodily experience, it seems to be of particular importance in the creation of a living statue. In a manner typical of Ovid, the destabilizing and the suspending of balance, including the potential even to turn into forms of excess, are also evoked at the same time.
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In: Esme Winter-Froemel and Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance (Manuals of Romance Linguistics), 739-750, 2023
This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary st... more This contribution explores possible applications of discourse traditions (DTs) within literary studies, using ancient Greek and Latin authors as examples. Topics in- clude the analysis of literary genres across linguistic boundaries and epochs (the ex- ample of medieval and ancient Latin love poetry) and the development of new genres out of already existing conventions and traditions (Ovid’s exile poetry). The phenom- enon of the Berliner Schnauze ‘Berlin snout’, discussed by Koch (1997) as an introduc- tory example, proves fruitful for literary processes observed in Greek Hellenistic and Roman literature by expanding aspects of intertextuality (the “Callimachean voice”). The DT model is further used to investigate how conventional epoch attributions can be used also time-independently (Ovid as “postmodern” author) and how traditions that have actually outlived themselves find reactivation (“republicanism” in Tacitus’ early imperial writings).
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In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’a... more In: Doris Meyer and Céline Urlacher-Becht (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’antiquité grecque et romaine, Turnhout: Brepols, 1105-1108, 2023.
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In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – V... more In: Jan Gerstner, Jakob C. Heller, and Christian Schmitt (eds.), Handbuch Idylle. Traditionen – Verfahren – Theorien, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 71-78, 2022
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In: Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg, and Jacqueline Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong, Leiden: Brill, 119-134, 2022
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In: M. Vöhler, T. Fuhrer, S. Frangoulidis (eds.), Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, Berlin: de Gruyter, 157-173 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Vol. 114), 2021
Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or ... more Ovid's Metamorphoses have a heroic image that is different from epics such as Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid. The main character is replaced by a polyphony of heroes in about 250 individual narratives, which are linked to form a highly complex narrative structure. This paper attempts to analyze this aspect by integrating approaches from the Tübingen Research Training Group 1808 Ambiguity: Production and Perception and the Freiburg Collaborative Research Center 948 Heroes, Heroizations, Heroisms. In particular, at the intersection of literary studies and linguistics, it will be asked how ambiguity is generated linguistically in the Metamorphoses. It is therefore less about the evaluation of individual characters from the point of view of heroism, but rather about how, one level deeper, a language of ambiguity is generated. A tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, serves as an example text.
[an earlier version in German language has been published in 2019, see below]
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In: Jinyu Liu (ed.), New Frontiers of Research on Ovid in a Global Context (Quan qiu shi ye xia de gu luo ma shi ren ao wei de yan jiu qian yan). Studies in Western Classics Series (xi fang gu dian xue yan jiu xi lie cong shu). Peking University Press (Bei jing da xue chu ban she), 281-295 , 2021
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In: Scienze dell’Antichitá 26/2: La narratologia come approccio alla letteratura e all’arte antiche. A cura di Andrea Cucchiarelli, 115-126, 2020
This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s li... more This paper argues that in Sueton’s Augustusvita a strategic ‘narrativization’ of the emperor’s life can be observed. Following de Jong's formulation of a "narrativization of description" one could speak here of a ‘narrativization of life’. In particular, the two episodes about the birthplace (§ 6) and about a victorious ancestor of Augustus (§ 1) in the first part of the Vita allow an indication that Sueton was more interested in the exceptional nature of Augustus than merely in justifying it from entertaining reports about victorious ancestors or the numinous rule of an invisible power at the sites of his childhood. The use of the two striking, self-contained but conspicuously related short narratives, each with a high degree of sujet-like eventfulness, can then be read as a strategic narrativization of the depicted imperial life. The narrative element would then not only be a means of representation, but also a statement about the narrative worthiness or tellability of an exceptional ruler.
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In: helden. heroes. héros. E-Journal on the Cultures of the Heroic, Special Issue Vol. 6: Ambige Helden (ed. by Nicolas Potysch, Angelika Zirker), 27-35, 2019
Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen ... more Ovids Metamorphosen weisen ein ‚Heldenbild‘ auf, das sich radikal von ‚klassischen‘ antiken Epen wie Homers Odyssee oder Vergils Aeneis unterscheidet. An die Stelle des einen Helden tritt nun eine Polyphonie von Helden in ca. 250 Einzelerzählungen, die unter dem Aspekt aitiologisch motivierter Verwandlungen zu einem narrativ hochkomplexen Gesamtgebilde verbunden sind. Der Beitrag versucht, diesen in der Forschung immer wieder betonten Aspekt näher zu analysieren, indem er Ansätze der Tübinger Ambiguitätsforschung (GRK 1808) und des Freiburger Heldenprojektes (SFB 948) integriert. Im Einzelnen wird auf der Schnittfläche von Literaturwissenschat und Linguistik gefragt, wie Ambiguität in den Metamorphosen sprachlich erzeugt wird. Es geht also weniger um die Bewertung einzelner Figuren unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Heldenhaftigkeit (z.B. ‚Ist Actaeon ein Held oder Anti-Held‘), sondern darum, wie – eine Ebene tiefer – eine Sprache der Ambiguität erzeugt wird. Ausgangspunkt bilden sprachliche Einheiten, die Aspekte des Halben bezeichnen, wie die bei Ovid auffällig häufigen Komposita auf semi- / ‚halb‘ (z.B. semi-vir / ‚Halb-mann‘).
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In: Eva von Contze, Stefan Tilg (eds.), Handbuch Historische Narratologie, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 206-217, 2019
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In: Oliver Schelske, Christian Wendt (eds.), Mare nostrum – mare meum. Wasserräume und Herrschaftsrepräsentation, Hildesheim: Olms, 31- 54, 2019
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In: J. J. Klooster, M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker (eds.), Callimachus Revisited. New Perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship, Leuven: Peeters (Hellenistica Groningana, Vol. 24), 193-220, 2019
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In: Ruth Conrad, Volker H. Drecol, Sigrid Hirbodian (eds.), Säkulare Prozessionen. Zur religiösen Grundierung von Umzügen, Einzügen und Aufmärschen, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Colloquia historica et theologica 6), 111-145, 2019
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In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 1, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
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In: Strukturen epischen Erzählens – Epische Bauformen, Vol. 2, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
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In: Esme Winter-Froemel (ed.), Sprach-Spiel-Kunst. Ein Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis, Berlin: de Gruyter (The Dynamics of Wordplay, Vol. 8), 247-262, 2018
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Articles & Reviews by Robert Kirstein
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[an earlier version in German language has been published in 2019, see below]
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[an earlier version in German language has been published in 2019, see below]
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Nachdem die lange Zeit verschollen geglaubten Originalbeiträge vor kurzem wiedergefunden worden sind, erfolgt nun eine vollständige und authentische Neuausgabe der Korrespondenz, in der alle Retuschen und Kürzungen, die man bei der Erstausgabe 1935 für notwendig erachtet hatte, rückgängig gemacht wurden.