Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
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Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World

Graham Anderson

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Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World

Graham Anderson

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About This Book

A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage.

Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde's celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass.

This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317747314
Edition
1
Topic
Lingue e linguistica
Subtopic
Lingue antiche

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Title Page
  6. Original Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface
  10. Abbreviations
  11. 1 The First Fiction: Oriental Origins
  12. 2 Narrative into Novel: Plots and Personalities
  13. 3 Love and Learning
  14. 4 Character and Convention
  15. 5 Myth and Mystery
  16. 6 History and Society
  17. 7 Sex and Sentiment
  18. 8 Structure and Suspense
  19. 9 The Sublime and the Subliterary: Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus
  20. 10 Phoenician Tales and other Fragments
  21. 11 Fiction and Folktale
  22. 12 In Search of the Satyricon
  23. 13 The Ancestry of the Ass-Tale
  24. 14 The Golden Satyr, or Encolpius the Ass
  25. 15 New Perspectives
  26. Appendix I: Philetas’ Speech and the Numun-Plant
  27. Appendix II: Sesonchosis and Ramin
  28. Appendix III: Ascyltus and Shukalletuda
  29. Select Bibliography
  30. Index of Authors and Texts
  31. Index of Persons and Places
Citation styles for Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

APA 6 Citation

Anderson, G. (2014). Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals) (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1665167/ancient-fiction-routledge-revivals-the-novel-in-the-graecoroman-world-pdf (Original work published 2014)

Chicago Citation

Anderson, Graham. (2014) 2014. Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals). 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1665167/ancient-fiction-routledge-revivals-the-novel-in-the-graecoroman-world-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Anderson, G. (2014) Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals). 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1665167/ancient-fiction-routledge-revivals-the-novel-in-the-graecoroman-world-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Anderson, Graham. Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals). 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2014. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.