Ancient Fiction Routledge Revivals

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317747314

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Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Graham Anderson Pdf

A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage. Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.

Author : Ioan Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136823428

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Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Ioan Williams Pdf

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

Author : Ioan Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136823411

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Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Ioan Williams Pdf

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.

Author : Margaret Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136836589

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The Chinese Classic Novels (Routledge Revivals) by Margaret Berry Pdf

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially, economically, religiously, aesthetically - to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West. Besides the scores of annotated sources, the introductory essays remain as authentic and moving as the day of their appearance. Equally to be observed is accelerating demand, especially in academic institutions, for global cultural exchange through national literatures. How can we of the English-speaking world, for example, adequately understand and converse with our Chinese counterparts without some appreciation of their culture, notably of Confucian and Taoist roles in their history as reflected in their literature? Overall, a pioneering work whose reissue will be welcomed by both scholars and general readers alike.

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015013316230

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Ancient Fiction by Graham Anderson Pdf

In addition to Longus, this work considers Achilles Tatius, Xenophon of Ephesus, Helioforus and Chariton as ancient novelists, and discusses Christian works containing a high proportion of romantic material, including Joseph and Aseneth and The Acts of Thomas.

Author : Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317206408

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Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals) by Marie Mulvey-Roberts Pdf

First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.

Author : ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799368

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Greek Fiction by ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman Pdf

First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the boundaries of the subject beyond the 'canon' of the romances properly called and examines Greek fic­tional writing in the widest possible context, including texts that are not nor­mally treated as novels, such as various kinds of sacred or quasi-historical texts. The editors hope to open up the definition of Greek fiction to further debate and to create cross-currents between scholars working in diverse fields.

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317747178

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Philostratus (Routledge Revivals) by Graham Anderson Pdf

This study of Philostratus , first published in 1986, presents the Greek biographer’s treatment of both sophists and holy men in the social and intellectual life of the early Roman Empire, which also displays his own distinctive literary personality as a superficial dilettante and an engrossing snob. Through him we gain a glimpse of the rhetorical schools and their rivalries, as well as a bizarre portrayal of the celebrated first-century holy man Apollonius of Tyana, long loathed by his later Christian press as a Pagan Christ. Rarely does a biographer’s reputation revolve round the charge that he forged his principal source. Graham Anderson’s account produces new evidence which supports Philostratus’ credibility, but it also extends the charges of ignorance and bias in his handling of fellow-sophists. Philostratus is intended for any reader interested in the social, cultural and literary history of the Roman Empire as well as the professional classicist.

Author : Magdalene Redekop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317695868

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Mothers and Other Clowns (Routledge Revivals) by Magdalene Redekop Pdf

First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre collection of clowning mothers parade across the pages of Munro’s fiction, playing practical jokes, performing stunts, and dressing in disguises that recycle vintage literary images. Magdalene Redekop studies this with the aim of gaining increased understanding of Munro’s evolving comic vision.

Author : Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004496439

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The Novel in the Ancient World by Gareth L. Schmeling Pdf

From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as “alternative histories,” for they tell history implicitly rather than with the intentional biases of the historian. The Novel in the Ancient World surveys the new approaches and insights to the ancient novel and wrestles with issues such as the development, transformation, and christianization of the novel (Spirit-inspired versus inspired by the Muses). This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Niklas Holzberg
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 0415107520

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The Ancient Novel by Niklas Holzberg Pdf

This widely acclaimed text offers an introduction to the subject and presents an overview of the latest research. Substantially updated and expanded from the very successful German edition of 1986.

Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Civilization, Ancient, in literature
ISBN : 0709905106

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Ancient Fiction by Graham Anderson Pdf

Author : Jean Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315447704

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Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986) by Jean Radford Pdf

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context — rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

Author : Margaret Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136836572

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The Chinese Classic Novels (Routledge Revivals) by Margaret Berry Pdf

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially, economically, religiously, aesthetically - to promote cultural dialogue between China and the West. Besides the scores of annotated sources, the introductory essays remain as authentic and moving as the day of their appearance. Equally to be observed is accelerating demand, especially in academic institutions, for global cultural exchange through national literatures. How can we of the English-speaking world, for example, adequately understand and converse with our Chinese counterparts without some appreciation of their culture, notably of Confucian and Taoist roles in their history as reflected in their literature? Overall, a pioneering work whose reissue will be welcomed by both scholars and general readers alike.

Author : Suzanne Macalister
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135086435

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Dreams and Suicides by Suzanne Macalister Pdf

This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.