ISBN: 9780198721895

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 to… Mehr…

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 historicalcontext. The Readings are in two sections. The first examines aspects which are common to several or all of the novels, for example, themes and plots; the portrayal of emotions; the role of the countryside; female readers and characters; and the ''historical novel''. The second section contains studies of thenarrative and plot of Chariton, the genre of and literary responses to Longus, Achilles Tatius'' ego-narrative, the narrative technique and message of Heliodorus, and the humour found in Lucian''s A True Story. Six of these pieces have been translated for the first time from French, German, andItalian, thereby bringing some of the best of European scholarship to an Anglophone audience. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek. Books, Fiction and Literature, Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel Books>Fiction and Literature, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780198721895

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 to… Mehr…

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 historicalcontext. The Readings are in two sections. The first examines aspects which are common to several or all of the novels, for example, themes and plots; the portrayal of emotions; the role of the countryside; female readers and characters; and the ''historical novel''. The second section contains studies of thenarrative and plot of Chariton, the genre of and literary responses to Longus, Achilles Tatius'' ego-narrative, the narrative technique and message of Heliodorus, and the humour found in Lucian''s A True Story. Six of these pieces have been translated for the first time from French, German, andItalian, thereby bringing some of the best of European scholarship to an Anglophone audience. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek. | Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel by Simon Swain Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Simon Swain<

1999, ISBN: 9780198721895

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 1999

1999, ISBN: 9780198721895

Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press]