| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) |
| Series |
The Cambridge companions complete collection |
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The Cambridge companions to literature and classics |
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Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions complete collection
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics
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| Contents |
Introduction / Tim Whitmarsh -- Contexts -- Literary milieux / Ewen Bowie -- The history of sexuality / Helen Morales -- Cultural identity / Susan Stephens -- Class / Tim Whitmarsh -- The world of the novel -- Religion / Froma Zeitlin -- Travel / James Romm -- Body and text / Jason König -- Time / Lawrence Kim -- Politics and spectacles / Catherine Connors -- Form -- Genre / Simon Goldhill -- Approaching style and rhetoric / Andrew Laird -- Intertextuality / John Morgan and Stephen Harrison -- Narrative / Tim Whitmarsh and Shadi Bartsch -- Reception -- Ancient readers / Richard Hunter -- Byzantine readers / Joan B. Burton -- The re-emergence of ancient novels in western Europe, 1300-1810 / Michael Reeve -- Novels ancient and modern / Gerald Sandy and Stephen Harrison -- Modernity and post-modernity / Massimo Fusillo |
| Summary |
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. This book contains 19 original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings |
| Notes |
"Cambridge collections online." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Classical fiction -- History and criticism
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Greek fiction -- History and criticism
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Latin fiction -- History and criticism
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Classical fiction.
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Greek fiction.
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Latin fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whitmarsh, Tim
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| LC no. |
2007053004 |
| ISBN |
1139001833 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139001830 (electronic bk.) |
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(pbk.) |
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