Victoria Rimell

Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores corporeality as a metaphor and its implications for the unity of the text.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521037013
• ISBN-10: 0521037018
• Artikelnr.: 22859124

Autorenporträt

Victoria Rimell is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome, La Sapieza. She has published Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction (2002), Ovid's Lovers (2006) and Martial's Rome (2008), and has also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 2005) and Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (edited by Jason Konig and Tim Whitmarsh, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: corporealities
1. Rhetorical red herrings
2. Behind the scenes
3. The beast within
4. From the horse's mouth
5. Bella intestina
6. Regurgitating Polyphemus
7. Scars of knowledge
8. How to eat Virgil
9. Ghost stories
10. Decomposing rhythms
11. Conclusion: licence and labyrinths
Appendices
Bibliography
Index of passages discussed
Index of subjects.