Decoding the Ancient Novel : The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius /

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Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bartsch, Shadi, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1989]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Achilles Tatius. > Leucippe and Clitophon.
Heliodorus, > of Emesa. > Aethiopica.
Leucippe and Clitophon (Achilles Tatius)
Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Reader-response criticism.
Greek fiction.
Description (Rhetoric)
POETRY > General.
Rhetorique ancienne.
Esthetique de la reception.
Roman grec > Histoire et critique.
Description (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Greek fiction > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic
  • TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens
  • THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation
  • FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright
  • FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader
  • SIX. The Role of Description
  • APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.

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