Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne

A Companion to the Ancient Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cleverly bisecting the over-extension and highly focused specialism of other texts on the ancient novel, this edited collection features the most up-to-date international scholarship and offers an invaluable survey of the classical world's prototypical achievements in narrative fiction. It includes chapters on individual classical authors such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as thematic analysis deploying offering varied theoretical perspectives. This comprehensive and accessible work promises to be an important resource for students and scholars of the ancient novel.

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This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary.

Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis
Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices
Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis
Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form
Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A444336020
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1132g
• ISBN-13: 9781444336023
• ISBN-10: 1444336029
• Artikelnr.: 38106147

Autorenporträt

Shannon N. Byrne is Professor of Classics at Xavier University. Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown. Together, they have coedited several books, including of Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel: Essays in Honor of Gareth L. Schmeling (with J. Alvares, 2006), Longus: Text, Commentary and Vocabulary (2005), and Humor and Classical Literature (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N.
Byrne Part I Novels and Authors 11 a. Greek 12 1 Chariton: Individuality
and Stereotype 13 Graham Anderson 2 Daphnis and Chloe: Innocence and
Experience, Archetypes and Art 26 Jean Alvares 3 Xenophon, The Ephesian
Tales 43 James N. O'Sullivan 4 Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of
Novelistic Conventions 62 Kathryn S. Chew 5 Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story
76 Marília P. Futre Pinheiro b. Roman 95 6 Petronius, Satyrica 96 Heinz
Hofmann 7 Apuleius' The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast 119 Paula James
8 Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 133 Giovanni Garbugino c. Related 146 9 The
Other Greek Novels 147 Susan Stephens 10 Hell-bent, Heaven-sent: From
Skyman to Pumpkin 159 Barry Baldwin 11 The Novel and Christian Narrative
180 David Konstan and Ilaria Ramelli Part II Genre and Approaches 199 12
The Genre of the Novel: A Theoretical Approach 201 Marília P. Futre
Pinheiro 13 The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction 217 Graham
Anderson 14 Characterization in the Ancient Novel 231 Koen De Temmerman 15
Liaisons Dangereuses: Epistolary Novels in Antiquity 244 Timo Glaser 16 The
Life of Aesop (rec.G): The Composition of the Text 257 Consuelo
Ruiz-Montero Part III Influences and Intertextuality 273 17 Reception of
Strangers in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: The Examples of Hypata and Cenchreae
275 Stavros Frangoulidis 18 From the Epic to the Novelistic Hero: Some
Patterns of a Metamorphosis 288 Luca Graverini 19 Roman Elegy and the Roman
Novel 300 Judith P. Hallett and Judith Hindermann 20 Apuleius'
Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text? 317 Paula James 21 The Magnetic Stone of
Love: Greek Novel and Poetry 330 Françoise Létoublon 22 "Respect these
Breasts and Pity Me": Greek Novel and Theater 352 Françoise Létoublon and
Marco Genre 23 Poems in Petronius' Satyrica 371 Aldo Setaioli 24 Various
Asses 384 Niall W. Slater 25 Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature 400
Giuseppe Zanetto 26 Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel 411 Angela Holzmeister
Part IV Themes and Topics 425 27 Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian
Enthusiast's Thoughts and Reviews 427 Barry Baldwin 28 Love, Myth, and
Ritual: The Mythic Dimension and Adolescence in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
441 Anton Bierl 29 Gender in the Ancient Novel 456 Ellen D. Finkelpearl 30
Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels 473 Sophie
Lalanne 31 Greek Love in the Greek Novel 490 John F. Makowski 32 Latin
Culture in the Second Century ad 502 Claudio Moreschini 33 Mimet(h)ic
Paideia in Lucian's True History 522 Peter von Möllendorff 34 Reimagining
Community in Christian Fictions 535 Judith Perkins 35 The Poetics of Old
Wives' Tales, or Apuleius and the Philosophical Novel 552 Stefan Tilg 36
Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus: Between Aristotle and Hitchcock 570 Martin
M. Winkler 37 Longus' Daphnis and Chloe: Literary Transmission and
Reception 584 Maria Pia Pattoni Index 598