Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel: returning romance

by Whitmarsh, Tim

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Title Statements

Full title :Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh.

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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xii, 299 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139042673, 113904267X, 9781139038751, 1139038753, 9780511975332, 0511975333
oclc:on1104398232
LC Classification:PA3267
Dewey Decimal:883/.0109

Introduction -- pt. 1. Returning romance -- 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon -- 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus -- 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus -- pt. 2. Narrative and identity -- 4. Pothos -- 5. Telos -- 6. Limen -- Conclusion -- Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Greek fiction Greek fiction -- History and criticism History Narration (Rhetoric) Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1… Roman grec -- Histoire et critique To 1500