In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as "Second Sophistic". Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore signi cant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.

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Yes, you can access Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel by Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo, Stephen A. Nimis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Letteratura & Critica letteraria antica e classica. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Barkhuis

Year

2023

ISBN

9789493194649

Topic

Letteratura

Subtopic

Critica letteraria antica e classica

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
I MODERN CRITICAL THEORY
Trials and their Narrative Functions in the Ancient Novel
Erotic Neoteny in Longus’ Daphnis And Chloe
Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius: Magic, Gorgianism, Asianism
II POETICS
The Mimetic Concept of Homoiotes in the Structure of Heliodorus’ Novel
On the Idea of Homer in the Ancient Novel: A Study of Direct References to the Father of Classical Literature
Gold, Purple, and the Mystery of the Shell: Reflections in Achilles Tatius
III RHETORIC
Sentimental Education and Rhetoric in Daphnis and Chloe: Seasonal ekphrasis
Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
The Riddle Game in Apollonius of Tyre
Progymnasmatic Features in Heliodorus’ Characterizations
Performative Stage Directions in the Satyrica’s Inquits
Prophetic Myths and Pictured Recollections: Rhetoric of Ecphrasis in Moschus’ Europa and in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon
The Evidence of Composition with progymnasmata in Eustathios Makrembolites’ Novel
Abstracts
Contributors
Indices