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Title Narrating desire : eros, sex, and gender in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, Froma I. Zeitlinches
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 289 pages)
Series Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; v. 14
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 14. 1868-4785
Contents Introduction; Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel; Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations; Gender and Ways of Organizing Space; Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel; Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii); The Gardens of 'Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë'; Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel; Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton; Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius
Petronius' Giton: Gender and Genre in the SatyricaGender Transformations in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Composite Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index Locorum; Subject Index
Summary Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the field of ancient sexuality, inquiry into major shifts in erotic consciousness is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection, which focus upon the representation of the desiring subject in prose fiction, advance our understanding considerably as they probe the ambiguities surrounding the ostensible opposition of male and female in such texts. The volume will provide a needed point of departure for subsequent research into modifications to gender frameworks at a time of social transition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes In English
Subject Sex in literature.
Greek fiction -- History and criticism
Latin fiction -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Greek fiction
Latin fiction
Sex in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília)
Skinner, Marilyn B
Zeitlin, Froma I
ISBN 9783110282047
3110282046
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