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Author Rimell, Victoria.

Title Petronius and the anatomy of fiction / Victoria Rimell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-226) and indexes.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Corporealities; CHAPTER 1 Rhetorical red herrings; CHAPTER 2 Behind the scenes; CHAPTER 3 The beast within; CHAPTER 4 From the horse's mouth; CHAPTER 5 Bella intestina; CHAPTER 6 Regurgitating Polyphemus; CHAPTER 7 Scars of knowledge; CHAPTER 8 How to eat Virgil; CHAPTER 9 Ghost stories; CHAPTER 10 Decomposing rhythms; Conclusion Licence and labyrinths; APPENDIX 1 The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon; APPENDIX II The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon.
Summary Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon, corporeality is here for the first time explored as a metaphor and it is argued that, on the level of imagery, the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble.
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Subject Petronius Arbiter. Satyricon.
Petronius Arbiter -- Technique.
Petronius Arbiter.
Technique.
Petronius Arbiter, -66. Satyricon.
Pétrone. Satyricon.
Pétrone -- Technique.
Satyricon (Petronius Arbiter)
Satire, Latin -- History and criticism.
Satire, Latin.
Rome -- In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Fiction -- Technique.
Fiction -- Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Rimell, Victoria. Petronius and the anatomy of fiction. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 052181586X (DLC) 2002067382 (OCoLC)49664540
ISBN 0511042612 (electronic book)
9780511042614 (electronic book)
9780511482359 (electronic book)
0511482353 (electronic book)
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9780511045837
9780521815864
052181586X