The ancient novel and beyond

The ancient novel and beyond / edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Keulen.

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Other Authors: Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968-, Zimmerman, M. (Maaike), Keulen, Wytse Hette
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava Supplementum ; 241.
Subjects:
Classical fiction > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > Classical influences.
Literature, Modern > Classical influences.
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.

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