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The ancient novel and beyond / edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Keulen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 241.
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, 0169-8958. Supplementum ; 241
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical fiction--History and criticism.
- Classical fiction.
- Literature, Medieval--Classical influences.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Literature, Modern--Classical influences.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 489 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Ancient Novel in Context
- Alexander the Great in the Arabic Tradition / Richard Stoneman 3
- 'The Last Days of Alexander' in an Arabic Popular Romance of Al-Iskandar / Faustina Doufikar - Aerts 23
- Lucius and Aesop Gain a Voice: Apul. Met. 11.1-2 and Vita Aesopi 7 / Ellen Finkelpearl 37
- The Grand Vizier, the Prophet, and the Satirist. Transformations of the Oriental Ahiqar Romance in Ancient Prose Fiction / Marko Marincic 53
- Living Portraits and Sculpted Bodies in Chariton's Theater of Romance / Froma I. Zeitlin 71
- Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius / Niall W. Slater 85
- Plato's Dream: Philosophy and Fiction in the Theaetetus / Kathryn Morgan 101
- Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian's Verae Historiae / Andrew Laird 115
- The Representation of Violence in the Greek Novels and Martyr Accounts / Cathryn Chew 129
- Three Death Scenes in Apollonius of Tyre / Stelios Panayotakis 143
- Part 2 The Ancient Novel in Focus
- Swordplay - Wordplay: Phraseology of Fiction in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Wytse Keulen 161
- Nymphs, Neighbours and Narrators: a Narratological Approach to Longus / John Morgan 171
- Reading for Pleasure: Narrative, Irony, and Eroticism in Achilles Tatius / Tim Whitmarsh 191
- The Winged Ass. Intertextuality and Narration in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Luca Graverini 207
- Tlepolemus the Spectral Spouse / Donald Lateiner 219
- Epic Extremities: The Openings and Closures of Books in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison 239
- In mediis rebus: Beginning Again in the Middle of the Ancient Novel / Stephen Nimis 255
- La lettre dans le roman grec ou les liaisons dangereuses / Francoise Letoublon 271
- The Role of Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Novels / Erkki Sironen 289
- Strategies of Authentication in Ancient Popular Literature / William Hansen 301
- Part 3 Beyond the Ancient Novel
- Archaic Iambos and Greek Novel: A Possible Connection / Giuseppe Zanetto 317
- Resistant (and enabling) Reading: Petronius' Satyricon and Latin Love Elegy / Judith Hallett 329
- La mise en scene declamatoire chez les romanciers latins / Danielle Van Mal - Maeder 345
- Der byzantinische Roman des 12. Jahrhunderts als Spiegel des zeitgenossischen Literaturbetriebs / Ruth Harder 357
- Static Imitation or Creative Transformation? Achilles Tatius in Hysmine & Hysminias / Ingela Nilsson 371
- The 'Entfuhrung aus dem Serail'-motif in the Byzantine (vernacular) Romances / Willem J. Aerts 381
- Staging the Fringe Before Shakespeare: Hans Sachs and the Ancient Novel / Niklas Holzberg 393
- Heliodor, Mademoiselle de Scudery und Umberto Eco: Lekturen des Liebesromans in L'isola del giorno prima / Gunter Berger 401
- From Petronius to Petrolio: Satyricon as a Model-Experimental Novel / Massimo Fusillo 413
- Myths of Person and Place: the Search for a Model for the Ancient Greek Novel / Gareth Schmeling 425.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-483) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004129995
- OCLC:
- 51900247
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