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The construction of the real and the ideal in the ancient novel /

The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ' The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, ' allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel Rethymnon, Greece
Otros Autores: Paschalis, Michael (Editor ), Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: [Eelde] : Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen University Library, 2013.
Colección:Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The political economy of romance in late period Egypt / Daniel L. Selden
  • 'But there is a difference in the ends ... ' : brigands and teleology in the ancient novel / Ken Dowden
  • Landscapes and portraits : signs of the uncanny and illusions of the real / Froma I. Zeitlin
  • The loves of the gods : literature as construction of a space of pleasure / Gianpiero Rosati
  • Comedy in Heliodoros' Aithiopika / Margaret Doody
  • Mythological paradigns in the Greek novels / Françoise Létoublon
  • 'His eyes stood as though of horn or steel' : Odysseus' fortitude and moral ideals in the Greek novels / Silvia Montiglio
  • The basic plot of Callirhoe : history, myth, and Aristotelian Poetics / Michael Paschalis
  • Caging grasshoppers : Longus' materials for weaving 'reality' / Ewen Bowie
  • Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi : the real as puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica / Mario Labate
  • Landscape and reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jason König
  • Between Photis and Isis : fiction, reality, and the ideal in The golden ass of Apuleius / Robert H.F. Carver
  • The erogics of mimēsis : gendered aesthetics in Greek theory and fiction / Tim Whitmarsh.