Narrating desire : eros, sex, and gender in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, Froma I. Zeitlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília)

Skinner, Marilyn B.

Zeitlin, Froma I.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in literature.

Greek fiction--History and criticism.

Greek fiction.

Latin fiction--History and criticism.

Latin fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient gender and sexuality, for such narratives subject societal norms to acute critique. This volume brings together fourteen essays originally given as oral presentations at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing feminist and psychoanalytic approaches, each offers a provocative investigation of sexual subjectivity as presented in the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole demonstrates the gradual convergence of formerly distinct norms of gendered behavior under pressure of emerging social realities. The editors of this volume are all well-known scholars in the fields of ancient narrative and/or ancient sexuality. Contributors include leading experts in these fields and emerging scholars whose research suggests directions for future exploration.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations

Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel

Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii)

The Gardens of ‘Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë’

Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton

Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius

How to Be a Man: Towards a Sexual Definition of the Self in Achilles Tatius’ Novel Leucippe and Clitophon

‘Taking It Like a Man’: Gender, Identity and the Body in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon

The Κρíσις Inside: Heliodoros’ Variations on the Bedtrick

Female Sexuality in Longus and Alciphron

Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen

Anxiety and Influence: Ovid’s Amores 3.7 and Encolpius’ Impotence in Satyricon 126 ff.

Petronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrica

Gender Transformations in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Composite Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index Locorum

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613940919

9781283628464

1283628465

9783110282047

3110282046

OCLC:

811962928