The ancient novel and the frontiers of genre / edited by Marilia P. Futre Pinheiro, Gareth Schmeling, Edmund P. Cueva.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor.

Schmeling, Gareth, editor.

Cueva, Edmund P., 1964- editor.

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the Ancient Novel (4th : 2008 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Series:

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 16.

Ancient Narrative Supplementum ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical fiction--History and criticism.

Classical fiction.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eelde : Barkhius, [2014]

Summary:

This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26, 2008. The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre reflects entirely the spirit and the general theme of the Conference, and is intended to convey the idea that both the novel as a literary form and scholarship on the ancient novel tend to mature and advance by crossing boundaries that older forms regarded as uncrossable. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kinds and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the novel's canon. The essays explore a wide variety of text, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the frontiers of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity. (from the preface)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9789491431661

9491431668

OCLC:

889245079