Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan and Bruce Duncan MacQueen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor.

Konstan, David, editor.

MacQueen, Bruce D., editor.

Conference Name:

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

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 1868-4785 volume 40.

Trends in Classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.

Classical fiction.

Culture in literature--Congresses.

Culture in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x 397 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2018.

Summary:

The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss "mapping the world in the novels". The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.

Notes:

Papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, held in Lisbon, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781501511950

1501511955

OCLC:

960462120

Publisher Number:

9781501511950

99975151735