Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel: returning romance

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 reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a r...

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Beteilige Person: Whitmarsh, Tim 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexiko City Cambridge University Press 2011
Schriftenreihe:Greek culture in the Roman world
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975332
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975332
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975332
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975332
Zusammenfassung: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 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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 299 Seiten)
ISBN:9780511975332
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511975332