عنوان

Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel :

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0521823919 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780521823913 (hardback)

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b527966

Title Proper

Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel :

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[Book]

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returning romance /

First Statement of Responsibility

by Tim Whitmarsh

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 299 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Greek culture in the Roman world

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Returning Romance; 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon; 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus; 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus; Part II. Narrative and Identity: 4. Pothos; 5. Telos; 6. Limen; Conclusion; Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments

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"The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"--

Greek fiction-- History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric)-- History-- To 1500

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Whitmarsh, Tim

Date of Transaction

20110624001455.0

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[Book]

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