A type scene is a literary convention employed by a narrator across a set of scenes, or related to scenes (place, action) already familiar to the audience. The similarities with, and differences from, the established type are used to illuminate developments in plot and character. The technique of the type-scene offers the poet a basic scaffolding, but it also allows the poet to adapt each scene for specific purposes.[1]:135
Much of the foundational work for such analysis was by Walter Arend in his 1933 Die typischen Scenen bei Homer book on the Iliad of Homer. Later work by Robert Alter employed similar examination to parts of the Hebrew Bible, in particular to the betrothal type-scene at the well in Genesis.[2]:45
References
- ^ Fowler, Robert Louis (2004). The Cambridge companion to Homer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521012461.
- ^ Bach, Alice (1999). Women in the Hebrew Bible. Routledge. ISBN 9780415915618.
Further Reading
- Alter, Robert (1983). The Art of Biblical Narrative. ISBN 978-0465004270.
- Arend, Walter (1933). Die typischen Scenen bei Homer. Berlin.
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