The ancient novel and beyond /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava,
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=117307 |
Table of Contents:
- Part One. The Ancient Novel in Context
- Alexander the Great in the Arabic Tradition / Richard Stoneman
- "The Last Days of Alexander" in an Arabic Popular Romance of Al-Iskandar / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
- Lucius and Aesop Gain a Voice : Apul. Met. 11.1-2 and Vita Aesopi / Ellen Finkelpearl
- The Grand Vizier, the Prophet, and the Satirist : Transformations of the Oriental Ahiqar Romance in Ancient Prose Fiction / Marko Marincic
- Living Portraits and Sculpted Bodies in Chariton's Theater of Romance / Froma I. Zeitlin
- Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius / Niall W. Slater
- Plato's Dream : Philosophy and Fiction in the Theaetetus / Kathryn Morgan
- Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian's Verae Historiae / Andrew Laird
- The Representation of Violence in the Greek Novels and Martyr Accounts / Cathryn Chew
- Three Death Scenes in Apollonius of Tyre / Stelios Panayotakis
- Part Two. The Ancient Novel in Focus
- Swordplay
- Wordplay : Phraseology of Fiction in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Wytse Keulen
- Nymphs, Neighbours and Narrators : a Narratological Approach to Longus / John Morgan
- Reading for Pleasure : Narrative, Irony, and Eroticism in Achilles Tatius / Tim Whitmarsh
- The Winged Ass : Intertextuality and Narration in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Luca Graverini
- Tlepolemus the Spectral Spouse / Donald Lateiner
- Epic Extremities : The Openings and Closures of Books in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison
- In mediis rebus : Beginning Again in the Middle of the Ancient Novel / Stephen Nimis
- La lettre dans le roman grec ou les liaisons dangereuses / Francoise Letoublon
- The Role of Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Novels / Erkki Sironen
- Strategies of Authentication in Ancient Popular Literature / William Hansen
- Part Three. Beyond the Ancient Novel
- Archaic Iambos and Greek Novel : A Possible Connection / Giuseppe Zanetto
- Resistant (and enabling) Reading : Petronius' Satyricon and Latin Love Elegy / Judith Hallett
- La mise en scene declamatoire chez les romanciers latins / Daneille van Mal-Maeder
- Der byzantinische Roman des 12. Jahrhunderts als Spiegel des zeitgenossischen Literaturbetriebs / Ruth Harder
- Static Imitation or Creative Transformation? : Achilles Tatius in Hysmine & Hysminias / Ingela Nilsson
- The "Entfuhrung aus dem Serail"-motif in the Byzantine (vernacular) Romances / Willem J. Aerts
- Staging the Fringe Before Shakespeare : Hans Sachs and the Ancient Novel / Niklas Holzberg
- Heliodor, Mademoiselle de Scudery und Umberto Eco : Lekturen des Liebesromans in L'isola del giorno prima / Gunter Berger
- From Petronius to Petrolio : Satyricon as a Model-Experimental Novel / Massimo Fusillo
- Myths of Person and Place : the Search for a Model for the Ancient Greek Novel / Gareth Schmeling.