Authors Authority And Interpreters In The Ancient Novel

Author : Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922132

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Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel by Gareth L. Schmeling Pdf

For most of us there are many masters and varied causes for intellectual peregrinations. For the editors of this volume, for many scholars of the ancient novel, and for an uncounted number of students of Classics and the Humanities, Gareth Lon Schmeling is a master and motivator of our scholarly and academic careers, especially of our forays into the ancient novel. And above all Gareth is a true friend. This volume of essays is a small, and, we hope, representative offering of our thanks to Gareth for his contributions to the study of the ancient novel in particular and Classics in general, for his guidance and support in our own endeavors, and for his own special humanity.

Author : Shannon N. Byrne,Jean Alvares
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : OCLC:68401568

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Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel by Shannon N. Byrne,Jean Alvares Pdf

Author : Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922545

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Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel by Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth L. Schmeling Pdf

The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whitmarsh); polypragmosyne (curiosity) in ancient fiction and how it affects the practice of reading novels (Hunter); the intriguing relationship between the writing and reading of inscriptions in ancient fiction (Slater); the tension between public and private in constructing and reading of texts inserted in the novelistic prose (Nimis); the intertextual pedigree of the poet Eumolpus (Smith); Seneca's Claudius and Petronius' Encolpius as readers of Homer and Virgil and writers of literary scenarios (Paschalis); the ways in which some Greek novels draw the reader's attention to their status as written texts (Bowie); the interfaces between tellers and receivers of stories in Antonius Diogenes (Morgan); the generic components and the putative author of the Alexander Romance (Stoneman); Diktys as a writer and ways of reading his Ephemeris (Dowden); the presence and character of Iliadic intertexts in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Harrison); the contrasting roles of the narrator-translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and De deo Socratis (Fletcher); seriocomic strategies by Roman authors of narrative fiction and fable (Graverini & Keulen); reading as a function for recognizing 'allegorical moments' in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (Zimmerman); active and passive reading as embedded in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius; and the importance of book reading in Augustine's 'novelistic' Confessions (Hunink).

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431524

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The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo Pdf

This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.

Author : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444336023

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A Companion to the Ancient Novel by Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne Pdf

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

Author : Marí­lia P. Futre Pinheiro,Gareth Schmeling,Edmund P. Cueva
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431661

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The Ancient Noveland the Frontiers of Genre by Marí­lia P. Futre Pinheiro,Gareth Schmeling,Edmund P. Cueva Pdf

"This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26, 2008. The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre reflects entirely the spirit and the general theme of the Conference, and is intended to convey the idea that both the novel as a literary form and scholarship on the ancient novel tend to mature and advance by crossing boundaries that older forms regarded as uncrossable. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kinds and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the novel's canon. The essays explore a wide variety of text, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the frontiers of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity". (from the preface)

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860487

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Decoding the Ancient Novel by Shadi Bartsch Pdf

Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narrative proper, working to activate the audience's awareness of the play of meaning in the story. As the crucial elements in the evolution of a relationship in which the author arouses and then undermines the expectations of his readership, these passages provide the key to a better understanding and interpretation of these two most sophisticated of the ancient Greek romances. In many works of the Second Sophistic, descriptions of visual conveyors of meaning--artworks and dreams--signaled the presence of a deeper meaning. This meaning was revealed in the texts themselves through an interpretation furnished by the author. The two novels at hand, however, manipulate this convention of hermeneutic description by playing upon their readers' expectations and luring them into the trap of incorrect exegesis. Employed for different ends in the context of each work, this process has similar implications in both for the relationship between reader and author as it arises out of the former's involvement with the text. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,David Konstan,Bruce Duncan MacQueen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501503986

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Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,David Konstan,Bruce Duncan MacQueen Pdf

The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss “mapping the world in the novels.” The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.

Author : Daniel Jolowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192647740

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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels by Daniel Jolowicz Pdf

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks were not much interested in Roman cultural products (especially literature). Instead, it argues that Latin poetry is a crucially important frame of reference for Greek imperial literature. This has significant ramifications, bearing on the question of bilingual allusion and intertextuality, as well as on that of cultural interaction during the imperial period more generally. Three of these novels in particular-Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe, Achilles Tatius' Clitophon and Leucippe, and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe-are analysed for the extent to which they allude to Latin poetry, and for the effects (literary and ideological) of such allusion. After establishing the cultural context and parameters of the study, each chapter pursues the strategies of an individual novelist in connection with Latin poetry. The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture under the empire, and thus provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.

Author : Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440067

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The Modern Hercules by Alastair J.L. Blanshard,Emma Stafford Pdf

The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring the hero’s transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789077922361

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Ancient Narrative Volume 6 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922279

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The Greek and the Roman Novel by Michael Paschalis Pdf

"'Lyric' in contemporary literary criticism is a term as elusive as it is suggestive. It exists both as an adjective, expressing a poetic quality, and as a noun denoting a poetic mode, and both are notoriously difficult to define. It is this protean quality that has allowed 'lyric' to become a powerful creative stimulus for both poets and theorists. A foundational period for today's sense of 'lyric' was the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century"--

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199602681

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Framing the Ass by S. J. Harrison Pdf

This book studies one of the few novels from the Roman Empire, Apuleius' Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Harrison shows that this work is one of remarkable literary complexity. The volume traces some of the history of the novel's criticism and offers a detailed analysis of its key sections and issues.

Author : Judith Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134152643

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Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era by Judith Perkins Pdf

Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging in the early centuries CE – a trans-empire alliance of the Elite and the "Christians." Exploring the cultural representations of these social identities, Judith Perkins shows that they converge around an array of shared themes: violence, the body, prisons, courts, and time. Locating Christian representations within their historical context and in dialogue with other contemporary representations, it asks why do Christian representations share certain emphases? To what do they respond, and to whom might they appeal? For example, does the increasing Christian emphasis on a fully material human resurrection in the early centuries, respond to the evolution of a harsher and more status based judicial system? Judith Perkins argues that Christians were so successful in suppressing their social identity as inhabitants of the Roman Empire, that historical documents and testimony have been sequestered as "Christian" rather than recognized as evidence for the social dynamics enacted during the period, Her discussion offers a stimulating survey of interest to students of ancient narrative, cultural studies and gender.

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009353526

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels by Ewen Bowie Pdf

In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.