Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel

by: Swain, S.

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 Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel
Edited by Simon Swain
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Makes easily available some of the most important and influential contemporary articles written on the Greek Novel.
Covers the most important areas of scholarly discussion on the literary genre of the ancient novel.

Description
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 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 the narrative 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, and Italian, 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.

Table of Contents
1:A Century and More of the Greek Novel, Simon Swain
2:The Greek Novel: The Genre, Ewen Bowie
3:The Conflict of Emotions: a Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel, Massimo Fusillo
4:Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town, Suzanne Said
5:The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader, Brigitte Egger
6:Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel, Tomas Hagg
7:Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton, B. P. Reardon
8:Longos: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire, Bernd Effe
9:The Novel of Longos the Sophist and Pastoral Tradition, Lia Raffaella Cresci
10:Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative, B.P.Reardon
11:The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopka, J.R. Morgan
12:The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika, John J. Winkler
13:The Mirror of the Moon. Lucian's A True Story - From Satire to Utopia, Massimo Fusillo

Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel

by: Swain, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780198721888 / 978-0-19-872188-8
• ISBN-03: 0198721889 / 0-19-872188-9
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999

Price: 75,00 EURO

1 copy in stock