| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) |
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Ancient Narrative Supplementum ; 18 |
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Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 18.
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| Contents |
Lucian's philosophical island / Diskin Clay -- The pillars of hercules : the genre understanding of the utopian novel / Heinrich Kuch -- Homeric parody, the Isle of the Blessed, and the nature of paideia in Lucian's Verae historiae / Benjamin Haller -- Lucian's true stories : paradoxography and false discourse / Valentina Popescu -- Adventures of six men in a boat : the astral determinants of a maritime narrative in the Anthologies of Vettius Valens / Roger Beck -- Facts or fiction? : the fruitful relationship between ancient novel and literary miscellany / Hendrik Müller-Reineke -- Isis-epiphany in the Life of Aesop : a structural analytic approach / Grammatiki A. Karla -- Medicine and the novel : Apuleius' bonding with the educated reader / Regine May -- Pirates in the library / Nicolas Boulic and Françoise Létoublon -- Liminal games : fluidity of the sphragis of a novelist / Loreto Nuñez -- Tombs and stables, roofs and brothels, dens and raids in Lollianos' fragments / Angelo Casanova -- Erotic fiction and Christian sexual ethics in Nonnus' Episode of Morrheus and Chalcomede / Fotini Hadjittofi -- Hagiographic romance : novelistic narrative strategy in Jerome's Lives of hermits / Jiří Šubrt |
| Summary |
"This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26, 2008. The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre reflects entirely the spirit and the general theme of the Conference, and is intended to convey the idea that both the novel as a literary form and scholarship on the ancient novel tend to mature and advance by crossing boundaries that older forms regarded as uncrossable. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kinds and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the novel's canon. The essays explore a wide variety of text, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the frontiers of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity."--Page vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Classical fiction
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Classical literature
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Literature.
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proceedings (reports)
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Literary criticism
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Literary criticism.
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Actes de congrès.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor.
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Schmeling, Gareth L., editor.
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Cueva, Edmund P., 1964- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789491431708 |
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9491431706 |
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