Format:
1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
ISBN:
9789491431708
Series Statement:
The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre Ser v.18
Content:
Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A. UTOPIA AND PARADOXOGRAPHY -- DISKIN CLAY. Lucian's Philosophical Island -- HEINRICH KUCH. The Genre Understanding of the Utopian Novel -- BENJAMIN HALLER. Homeric parody, the isle of the blessed, and the nature of Paideia in Lucian's Verae Historiae -- VALENTINA POPESCU. Lucian's True Stories: Paradoxography and False Discourse -- B. FLUID TEXTS -- ROGER BECK. The Adventures of Six Men in a Boat: the Astral Determinants of a Maritime Narrative in the Anthologies of Vettius Valens -- HENDRIK MÜLLER-REINEKE. Facts or Fiction? The fruitful relationship between Ancient Novel and literary Miscellany -- GRAMMATIKI A. KARLA. Isis-Epiphany in the Life of Aesop: A structural analytic approach -- C. CROSSED GENRES -- REGINE MAY. Medicine and the Novel: Apuleius' Bonding with the Educated Reader -- NICOLAS BOULIC AND FRANÇOISE LÉTOUBLON. Pirates in the Library -- LORETO NÚÑEZ. Liminal Games: Fluidity of the Sphragis of a Novelist -- D. HYBRID FORMS -- ANGELO CASANOVA. Tombs and Stables, Roofs and Brothels, Dens and Raids in Lollianos' Fragments -- FOTINI HADJITTOFI. Erotic Fiction and Christian Sexual Ethics in Nonnus' Episode of Morrheus and Chalcomede -- JIRÍ ŠUBRT. Hagiographic romance: novelistic narrative strategy in Jerome's Lives of Hermits -- Abstracts -- Autobiographical Notes -- Indexes -- Index locoroum -- General Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789491431661
Additional Edition:
Print version Futre Pinheiro, Marília P The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre Havertown : Barkhuis Publishing,c2014 ISBN 9789491431661
Language:
English
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