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1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Ancient Narrative Supplementum ; v. 17
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Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 17.
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Papers presented at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26, 2009. |
Summary |
The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ' The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, ' allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus' Aethiopika (Doody);myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle's Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insu fficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh). |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
The political economy of romance in late period Egypt / Daniel L. Selden -- 'But there is a difference in the ends ... ' : brigands and teleology in the ancient novel / Ken Dowden -- Landscapes and portraits : signs of the uncanny and illusions of the real / Froma I. Zeitlin -- The loves of the gods : literature as construction of a space of pleasure / Gianpiero Rosati -- Comedy in Heliodoros' Aithiopika / Margaret Doody -- Mythological paradigns in the Greek novels / Françoise Létoublon -- 'His eyes stood as though of horn or steel' : Odysseus' fortitude and moral ideals in the Greek novels / Silvia Montiglio -- The basic plot of Callirhoe : history, myth, and Aristotelian Poetics / Michael Paschalis -- Caging grasshoppers : Longus' materials for weaving 'reality' / Ewen Bowie -- Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi : the real as puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica / Mario Labate -- Landscape and reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jason König -- Between Photis and Isis : fiction, reality, and the ideal in The golden ass of Apuleius / Robert H.F. Carver -- The erogics of mimēsis : gendered aesthetics in Greek theory and fiction / Tim Whitmarsh. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Greek prose literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Greek prose literature, Hellenistic. |
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Greek prose literature, Hellenistic -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.
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Themes, motives. |
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Ideals (Philosophy) in literature.
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Ideals (Philosophy) in literature. |
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Greek fiction, Hellenistic -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Greek fiction, Hellenistic. |
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Egyptian literature -- Greek influences.
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Egyptian literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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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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Added Author |
Paschalis, Michael, editor.
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Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (5th : 2009 : Rethymnon, Greece). Construction of the real and the ideal in the ancient novel. Eelde : Barkhuis ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, 2013 9789491431258 (DLC) 2013452420 (OCoLC)849528526 |
ISBN |
9789491431531 (electronic book) |
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9491431536 (electronic book) |
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9789491431258 |
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9491431250 |
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