...: affect, Callirhoe, Chariton of Aphrodisias, emotion, emulation, intertextuality, jealousy, mimesis, mimetic desire, novel, z los, z lotupia It can be, and has been, argued that every narrative is premised on some form of desire.1 For René Girard, this desire (indeed, desire in general) is always...

..., temporality, Homer, complexity, Heidegger, Ricoeur, evolution, hexameter, formulae, phenomenology, Aristotle, epithet, oral tradition, intertextuality Suppose that I am going to recite a psalm that I know. Before I begin, my faculty of expectation is engaged by the whole of it. But once I have begun, as much...