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Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh

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Whitmarsh, Tim
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
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1 online resource (xii, 299 pages).
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Contents
Introduction -- pt. 1. Returning romance -- 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon -- 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus -- 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus -- pt. 2. Narrative and identity -- 4. Pothos -- 5. Telos -- 6. Limen -- Conclusion -- Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments.
Summary
"The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"--
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9781139042673 (electronic bk.)
113904267X (electronic bk.)
9781139038751
1139038753
9780511975332 (ebook)
0511975333 (ebook)
9780521823913
0521823919
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-294) and index.
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