Readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel

Author : Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Victoria Rimell
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922231

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Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts by Victoria Rimell Pdf

The Greek and Roman novels can be seen as an important transitional moment in the trajectory from performance to reading, from oralism to textuality, that has underpinned the history of discourse in European consciousness since the 5th century BC. In different and intriguing ways, they explore the contrast, tension, conflict, competition or dialogue between modes of discourse, which frame the novel's concern with identity and self-fashioning, as well as advertising innovation more generally.This volume brings together an international group of scholars interested in ancient and modern constructions of orality and writing and how they are reflected and manipulated in the ancient novel. The essays deal not only with questions of genre, oral poetics and traditions, but also with how various ways of pitting or collapsing modes of representation can become loaded articulations of wider world-views, of cultural, literary, epistemological anxieties and aspirations. The contributors focus in particular on issues surrounding theatricality, gender identity, rhetorical performance, epistolarity, monumentality and power in the ancient novel.

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789077922897

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Ancient Narrative Volume 9 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139827973

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The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel by Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.

Author : Robert Cioffi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192870537

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel by Robert Cioffi Pdf

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows how the region is repeatedly portrayed in these fictions as a dual-site of ethnographic representation and of resistance to imperial power.

Author : Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Grammatiki Karla
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047428916

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Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age by Grammatiki Karla Pdf

The present volume includes studies on texts that traditionally have been confined to the margins of the genre of the ancient novel, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs.

Author : Ian Repath,Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192511133

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Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica by Ian Repath,Tim Whitmarsh Pdf

Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European literature (including Shakespeare and Sidney) and art is incalculable. As with all post-classical Greek literature, its popularity dived in the 19th century, thanks to the influence of romanticism. Since the 1980s, however, new generations of readers have rediscovered this extraordinary late-antique tale of adventure, travel, and love. Recent scholars have demonstrated not just the complexity and sophistication of the text's formal aspects, but its daring experiments with the themes of race, gender, and religion. This volume brings together fifteen established experts in the ancient romance from across the world: each explores a passage or section of the text in depth, teasing out its subtleties and illustrating the rewards reaped thanks to slow, patient readings of what was arguably classical antiquity's last classic.

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110563559

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Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond by Maria Gerolemou Pdf

In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a “rational explanation” to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion.

Author : Filippomaria Pontani,Vasileios Katsaros,Vasileios Sarris
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110524901

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Reading Eustathios of Thessalonike by Filippomaria Pontani,Vasileios Katsaros,Vasileios Sarris Pdf

Despite the relevance of Eustathios to both Classical and Byzantine studies, no monograph and no collective volume in English has yet been devoted to his figure. This book attempts to fill in this gap by addressing the various facets of his output - above all his commentaries on Homer, Dionysius the Periegete, Pindar, and the Iambic Canon on the Pentecost; but also his historiographical work, his speeches and his theological production receive due attention. The book also tackles several aspects of Eustathios‘ style (proverbs, allusions, etc.), and the meaning of his work in the context of his historical moment. Addressed at specialists but also at graduate students with an interest in the reception of Classical antiquity and in Byzantine civilisation, the volume gathers papers by leading scholars from various countries, and it opens up new paths of research in several areas of philology and history, above all by interweaving and juxtaposing Eustathios‘ dimension as an Homerist and an immensely learned classical scholar with his capacities as an orator, a highly praised teacher, a rhetorically refined writer of Greek prose, an historian of his own turbulent times, and an archbishop who had to fulfil his everyday duties.

Author : Lia Guerra,Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443864404

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The Centre and the Margins in Eighteenth-Century British and Italian Cultures by Lia Guerra,Frank O'Gorman Pdf

The relationship between the cultural Centre and cultural Margins has fascinated scholars for generations. Who, or what, determines what shall constitute the 'Centre' of a culture, its sacred and canonical forms and substance, and what the Margins? There are significant examples of the Margins of one generation moving to become the Centre of another. These are more than mere shifts of fashion and represent nothing less than a seismic cultural shift. How, and in what circumstances, can such a ...