Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel [electronic resource] : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh.
Whitmarsh, Tim.
2011
PA3267 .W55 2011eb
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Title Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel [electronic resource] : returning romance / by Tim Whitmarsh.
Author Whitmarsh, Tim.
ISBN 9781139042673 (electronic bk.)
113904267X (electronic bk.)
9780521823913
0521823919
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 299 p.)
Call Number PA3267 .W55 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 883/.0109
Summary "The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-294) and index.
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Series Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Introduction
Part I. Returning Romance; 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon; 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus; 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus
Part II. Narrative and Identity: 4. Pothos; 5. Telos; 6. Limen
Conclusion
Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments.

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