Hypolepsy

As Hypolepse (to old Greek ὑπόληψις) one describes

1. general connectivity ;
2. in the rhapsody competition, the rule that the next rhapsode must continue the recitation of the Homer text exactly where its predecessor left off;
3. in the rhetoric the connection to what the previous speaker said.

In general, Hypolepse describes a “text culture in which texts are reacted to with texts - through approval, rejection, continuation, correction, etc.” It is therefore an early form of intertextuality .

See also

• Communication connection ( Luhmann )
• Memory growth and memory loss
• Orality and literacy
• Memory art and mnemonics
• Cultural memory

Web links

• Jan Philipp Reemtsma : What does: Understand a metaphor mean? (1999), PDF file; 2.54 MB

literature

• Jan Assmann : Hypolepse - written culture and revolution of ideas in Greece . In: ders. (Ed.): The cultural memory: writing, memory and political identity in early high cultures. Beck, Munich 1992, 280-292.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Philipp Reemtsma: The irrevocable ignorance of the majority: six speeches on literature and art. Munich: CH Beck 2005. p. 133.