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Petronius and the anatomy of fiction /

Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon, corporeality is here for the first time explored as a metaphor and it is argued that, on the level of imagery, the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rimell, Victoria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
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Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Corporealities; CHAPTER 1 Rhetorical red herrings; CHAPTER 2 Behind the scenes; CHAPTER 3 The beast within; CHAPTER 4 From the horse's mouth; CHAPTER 5 Bella intestina; CHAPTER 6 Regurgitating Polyphemus; CHAPTER 7 Scars of knowledge; CHAPTER 8 How to eat Virgil; CHAPTER 9 Ghost stories; CHAPTER 10 Decomposing rhythms; Conclusion Licence and labyrinths; APPENDIX 1 The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon; APPENDIX II The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon.