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Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance
Contributor(s): Whitmarsh, Tim (Author)
ISBN: 0521823919     ISBN-13: 9780521823913
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $92.14  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 883.010
LCCN: 2010052774
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Whitmarsh, Tim: - Tim Whitmarsh is a leading literary and cultural critic of the Greek world during the time of the Roman Empire. A specialist in both ancient texts and modern theories, he has written over fifty articles and five books, including Greek Literature and the Roman Empire (2001) and The Second Sophistic (2005). He has also edited or coedited four books, and edits two book series.