Oxford Readings In The Roman Novel

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198721749

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Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel by S. J. Harrison Pdf

"Those articles in the collection which concern Petronius' Satyrica include a general interpretation of this fragmentary and problematic text, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to Menippean satire and to recently discovered Greek novel papyri, and the issue of its realism."--BOOK JACKET. "On Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the collection includes pieces on narrative and ideological unity, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to religion and Platonism, to epic and to the Greek ass stories, and to historical realism."--Jacket.

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199260348

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Oxford Readings in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale Pdf

A collection of important scholarly articles on the Roman poet Lucretius, whose philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its readers of the validity of the rationalist theories of Epicurus. An Introduction contextualizes the essays, and all Greek and Latin is translated.

Author : Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Simon Swain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751376911

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Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel by Simon Swain Pdf

Author : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 45,9 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

Author : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107079335

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Reading Fiction with Lucian by Karen ní Mheallaigh Pdf

A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.

Author : Jean Alvares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000456516

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Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel by Jean Alvares Pdf

This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to archetypal and literary patterns as well as reflecting contemporary ideological and cultural elements. Readers will gain a better understanding of how necessary is an understanding of these ideal elements to a full understanding of the novels’ possible readings and their reader’s attitudes. This book sets forth critical methods, subsequently followed, which allows for this exploration of ideal themes. Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel will be an invaluable resource for scholars of these novels, as well as ancient narratives and classical literature more generally. Scholars of cultural and utopian studies will also find the book useful, as well as some undergraduate students in all these areas.

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199281152

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Oxford Readings in Ovid by Peter E. Knox Pdf

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entr e into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.

Author : Simon Samuel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567262547

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A Postcolonial Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus by Simon Samuel Pdf

This unique contribution to Markan studies reads Mark's story of Jesus from a postcolonial perspective. It proposes that Mark need not necessarily be treated in an oversimplified polarity as an anti- or pro-colonial discourse. Instead it may be treated as a postcolonial discourse, i.e. as a hybrid discourse that accommodates and disrupts both the native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses of power. It shows that Mark accommodates itself into a strategic third space in between the variegated native Jewish and the Roman colonial discourses in order to enunciate its own voice. As an ambivalent and hybrid discourse it mimics and mocks, accommodates and disrupts both the Jewish as well as the Roman colonial voices. The portrait of Jesus in Mark, which Samuel shows to be encoding also the portrait of a community, exhibits a colonial/ postcolonial conundrum which can neither be damned as pro- nor be praised as anti-colonial in nature. Instead the portrait of Jesus in Mark may be appreciated as a strategic essentialist and transcultural hybrid, in which the claims of difference and the desire for transculturality are both contradictorily present and visible. In showing such a portrait and invoking a complex discursive strategy Mark as the discourse of a subject community is not alone or unique in the Graeco-Roman world. A number of discourses-historical, creative novelistic and apocalyptic-of the subject Greek and Jewish communities in the eastern Mediterranean under the imperium of Rome from the second century BCE to the end of the first century CE exhibit very similar postcolonial traits which one may add to be not far from the postcolonial traits of a number of postcolonial creative writings and cultural discourses of the colonial subject and the dominated post-colonial communities of our time.

Author : Rhiannon Ash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199285099

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Oxford Readings in Tacitus by Rhiannon Ash Pdf

This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.

Author : Simon Swain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047448082

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Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel by Simon Swain Pdf

This book comprises a new and exciting collection of critical work on the ancient Greek novel. It offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies of recent years together with an introduction, by the editor, which explores the nature of the Greek novel in its historical context. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek.

Author : Beth Severy-Hoven
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780806145907

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The Satyrica of Petronius by Beth Severy-Hoven Pdf

In The Satyrica of Petronius, Beth Severy-Hoven makes the masterpiece, with its flights of language and vision of Roman culture around the time of Nero, accessible to a new generation of students of Latin.

Author : Marília Futre Pinheiro,Silvia Montiglio
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431937

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Philosophy and the Ancient Novel by Marília Futre Pinheiro,Silvia Montiglio Pdf

The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato’s dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.

Author : Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199805211

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The Greek Novel: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.