Irene de Jong

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Irene JF de Jong (* 1957 ) is a Dutch classical philologist and professor of Greek studies at the University of Amsterdam . She is a major proponent of narratology .

Life

Irene de Jong studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1975 to 1982. She then taught at grammar school and spent a year as a scholarship holder at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae in Hamburg, where she worked on the lexicon of the early Greek epic .

In Hamburg, de Jong worked on her dissertation on the narrator of the Iliad. She used the narratological model of the Amsterdam literary scholar Mieke Bal . This approach was new to Classical Philology. Her dissertation Narrators and Focalizers. The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad was published in Amsterdam in 1987 and was reissued in 2004. The work was received differently by the specialist science and widely discussed. Irene de Jong continued her approach with other Greek authors, including Herodotus , Sophocles and Thucydides .

From 1988 de Jong worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, from 1998 as a professor. In 2001 she was appointed to the chair for Greek studies, which she has held since then.

Irene de Jong is co-editor of a handbook entitled Modern critical theory and classical literature (Leiden / Boston 1994). It publishes the series of manuals Studies in ancient Greek narrative , of which two volumes have so far been published: Narrators, Narratees, and narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden / Boston 2004) and Time in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden / Boston 2007). In 2015 she was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . Since 2007 she has been a member of the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

  • Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad . Amsterdam 1987. Reprinted Amsterdam 2004
  • Narrative in drama: the art of the Euripidean messenger-speech . Leiden 1991 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 116)
  • with JP Sullivan: Modern critical theory and classical literature . Leiden 1994 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 130)
  • A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey . Cambridge 2001
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 1: Narrators, narratees, and narratives in ancient Greek literature . Leiden 2004 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 257)
  • with Albert Rijksbaron: Sophocles and the Greek language: aspects of diction, syntax and pragmatics . Leiden 2006 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 269)
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 2: Time in ancient Greek literature . Leiden 2007 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 291)
  • Studies in ancient Greek narrative. Vol. 3: Space in ancient Greek literature . Leiden 2012 ( Mnemosyne Supplement 39)
  • Homer Iliad Book XXII . Cambridge 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members: Irene JF de Jong. Academia Europaea, accessed October 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Jong, Irene de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jong, Irene JF de; Jong, IJF de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957