| The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre Contributor(s): Futre Pinheiro, Marília P. (Editor), Schmeling, Gareth (Editor), Cueva, Edmund P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9491431668 ISBN-13: 9789491431661 Publisher: Barkhuis OUR PRICE: $102.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Dewey: 883.010 |
| LCCN: 2015386799 |
| Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements |
| Physical Information: 245 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite the fact that post-modern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kind and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the canon. The essays explore a wide variety of texts, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the boundaries of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity. |