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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Whitmarsh |
ISBN: | 1139001833 9781139001830 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521865906 |
OCLC Number: | 827343366 |
Notes: | In Cambridge companions online. Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 5 mars 2012). |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xv, 377 p.)) : fichiers PDF |
Contents: | 1. Introduction Tim Whitmarsh; Part I. Contexts: 2. Literary milieux Ewen Bowie; 3. The history of sexuality Helen Morales; 4. Cultural identity Susan Stephens; 5. Class Tim Whitmarsh; Part II. The World of the Novel: 6. Religion Froma Zeitlin; 7. Travel James Romm; 8. Body and text Jason Koenig; 9. Time Lawrence Kim; 10. Politics and spectacles Catherine Connors; Part III. Form: 11. Genre Simon Goldhill; 12. Approaching style and rhetoric Andrew Laird; 13. Intertextuality John Morgan and Stephen Harrison; 14. Narrative Tim Whitmarsh and Shadi Bartsch; Part IV. Reception: 15. Ancient readers Richard Hunter; 16. Byzantine readers Joan Burton; 17. The re-emergence of the novel in Western Europe, 1300-1810 Michael Reeve; 18. Novels ancient and modern Gerald Sandy and Stephen Harrison; 19. Modernity and post-modernity Massimo Fusillo. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature and classics |
Other Titles: | Cambridge companions online. Greek and Roman novel |
Responsibility: | edited by Tim Whitmarsh. |
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Abstract:
Generations of authors, scholars and students have embraced the sophisticated scurrility of Apuleius and Petronius, the elegance of Chariton and Longus, the narrative fireworks of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus. This volume presents nineteen new essays on these wonderful works accessible to students and non-specialists by internationally renowned experts.
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