Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel

Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan and Bruce Duncan MacQueen.

The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedent...

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Corporate Author: International Conference on the Ancient Novel Lisbon, Portugal
Other Authors: Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília) (Editor), Konstan, David (Editor), MacQueen, Bruce D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2018]
Series:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 40.
Subjects:
Classical fiction > History and criticism > Congresses.
Culture in literature > Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Classical fiction
Culture in literature
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements / Pinheiro, Marília P. Futre
  • Introduction / Konstan, David
  • Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel
  • Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius' Travels in the Satyrica / Jensson, Gottskálk
  • Xenophon's 'Round Trip': Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka / Capra, Andrea
  • Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus's Babyloniaka / Kasprzyk, Dimitri
  • Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus' Babyloniaka / Connors, Catherine
  • Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon / Baker, Ashli Jane Elizabeth
  • The Dialogic Imagination
  • Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio's Wife / Byrne, Shannon N.
  • Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus / Kugelmeier, Christoph
  • 'A mirror carried along a high road'? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel / Lalanne, Sophie
  • The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more / Mestre, Francesca / Gómez, Pilar
  • Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe / Peters, Janelle
  • Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting / Meyer, Martina
  • Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin's Menippea / Blood, H. Christian
  • Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel
  • Copyists' Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel / Morales, Manuel Sanz
  • Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton's Novel / Martelli, Marina F. A.
  • New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis / Pace, Nicola
  • Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna / Carver, Robert H. F.
  • The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe / Nakatani, Saiichiro
  • Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical
  • Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus / Finkelpearl, Ellen
  • Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe / Jaeger, Mary
  • Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome / König, Jason
  • Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel / Bodel, John
  • Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel
  • Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives / Konstan, David
  • The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels / Cummings, Michael
  • A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Sogno, Cristiana
  • Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato's Gyges and Apuleius' Lucius / Kenaan, Vered Lev
  • Why doesn't Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel / Cueva, Edmund P.
  • List of Contributors
  • Index nominum et rerum
  • Index locorum

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