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Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance
- Title
- Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh.
- Author
- Whitmarsh, Tim
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Series Statement
- Greek culture in the Roman world
- Uniform Title
- Greek culture in the Roman world.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-294) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2718
- ISBN
- 9780521823913 (hardback)
- 0521823919 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010052774
- OCLC
- YBP 2010052774
- Author
- Whitmarsh, Tim.
- Title
- Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Description
- xii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Greek culture in the Roman worldGreek culture in the Roman world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-294) and index.
- Summary
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2718