Modern Literary Theory And The Ancient Novel

Author : Marília Futre Pinheiro,Massimo Fusillo,Stephen A. Nimis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789493194649

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Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel by Marília Futre Pinheiro,Massimo Fusillo,Stephen A. Nimis Pdf

In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as “Second Sophistic”. Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore signi cant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.

Author : Thomas Schmitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470691533

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Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts by Thomas Schmitz Pdf

This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Applies theoretical approaches to examples from ancient literature Extensive bibliographies and index make it a valuable resource for scholars in the field

Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226074250

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Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern by Todd Breyfogle Pdf

Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy

Author : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 Futre Pinheiro,S. J. Harrison
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 9789077922972

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Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel Volume 1 by Marília Futre Pinheiro,S. J. Harrison Pdf

"The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature."--

Author : Anne H. Stevens
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781770485617

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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction by Anne H. Stevens Pdf

Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches. The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Author : Stelios Panayotakis,Maaike Zimmerman,Wytse Keulen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047402114

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The Ancient Novel and Beyond by Stelios Panayotakis,Maaike Zimmerman,Wytse Keulen Pdf

This collection of wide-ranging essays offers a fascinating overview of current scholarly approaches to the ancient novel and related texts. These are discussed in their literary, cultural and social context, and as sources of inspiration for Byzantine and modern fiction.

Author : James Tatum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032746508

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The Search for the Ancient Novel by James Tatum Pdf

In The Search for the Ancient Novel Tatum brings together a distinguished group of scholars to examine every aspect of ancient Greek and Roman novelists--the recovery of their texts, their reception, ancient and modern, and their place in literary theory and history. The contributors explore subjects ranging from antiquity to the present, from the anonymous authors of Apollonius King of Tyre and The Apochryphal Acts of Peter to Tasso, Cervantes, and Rabelais, from Lucian, Heliodorus, and Petronius to Chrétien de Troye and Samuel Richardson.

Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138512656

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Novel Practices by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are large-scale attempts to present a comprehensive view of the world through the experience of a representative hero. However, in the older tradition the hero stood for the aspirations and highest ideals of his society. The protagonist of the modern novel is usually at odds with that society, whether as exile, active rebel, or antagonistic critic. In Novel Practices, the distinguished literary scholar Eugene Goodheart surveys a representative selection of modern novelists tracing how the epic impulse has been reshaped under the conditions of modernity.Goodheart describes how George Eliot and James Joyce's comprehensive artistic creation enabled them to demonstrate a mastery of the world unattainable to their thwarted, flawed, or feckless heroes and heroines. Works such as Middlemarch and Ulysses, encyclopedic in their inclusiveness, share an ambitious scope that is virtually synonymous with epic. Goodheart shows that even in shorter works, such as James's The Beast in the Jungle and Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier, the standard of the epic hero acts as an ironic subtext. A chapter on Thomas Mann provides a European perspective, enacting conflict between self and society through a dramatized contest of ideas. Goodheart explores ambiguities of point of view as characteristic of modern uncertainty: how much authority or reliability should the reader concede to the narrator? What is the relationship between the narrator and the author? These and related questions are addressed in chapters on Lawrence, James, Bellow, Woolf, and Roth, which also deal with the place of literary biography in understanding fiction.Goodheart's approach centers on fiction, and although he takes cognizance of the critical theory of the past several decades, he nevertheless emphasizes the centrality of the author and authorial intention. Novel Practices will be essential reading for students of literature, culture, and intellectual history.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748626809

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Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.

Author : Richard Green Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3558513

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The Modern Study of Literature by Richard Green Moulton Pdf

Author : Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789492444691

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Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set by Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz Pdf

The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : J.P. Sullivan,Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329263

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Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature by J.P. Sullivan,Irene J.F. de Jong Pdf

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalité of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate, the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation, broadly construed, of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays, but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography, offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory.

Author : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118350584

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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