UID:
almahu_9949383533502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
ISBN:
9780429639173
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0429639171
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9780429029578
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0429029578
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9780429642340
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0429642342
Serie:
Routledge monographs in classical studies
Inhalt:
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers' perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature, including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers on fantasy who want to explore the genre's origins in antiquity, both in the more obvious and inlesser-known texts.
Anmerkung:
Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Themes of fantasy; 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity; 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures; 4 Fantastic voyages, other communities; 5 Dreams, apparitions, horror; 6 Some fantastic aspects of myth; 7 The ultimate myth: Metamorphosis; 8 Bizarre banquets, topsy-turvy tables; 9 Planting the phallus; PART II Divergent imaginations; 10 Verse fantasy into prose; 11 Inventing the past in Homer and Philostratus; PART III Fantastic texts
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12 Fantasy in Old Comedy and Lucian13 Getting into heaven: Lucian's Icaromenippus and Seneca's Apocolocyntosis; 14 The summation of fantasy: Lucian's True Histories; PART IV Consumers of fantasy; 15 Narrators and audiences for Fantasy; 16 Some approaches, ancient and modern; 17 Conclusions; Appendix: some fantastic nonsense; Bibliography; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Anderson, Graham. Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367139902
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429029578
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