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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815508803321

Titolo

The ancient novel and the frontiers of genre / / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Gareth Schmeling, Edmund P. Cueva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eelde, The Netherlands : , : Barkhuis, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

94-91431-70-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; ; 18

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Classical fiction - History and criticism

Classical literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Lucian's philosophical island / Diskin Clay -- The pillars of Hercules : the genre understanding of the utopian novel / Heinrich Kuch -- Homeric parody, the Isle of the Blessed, and the nature of paideia in Lucian's Verae historiae / Benjamin Haller -- Lucian's true stories : paradoxography and false discourse / Valentina Popescu -- Adventures of six men in a boat : the astral determinants of a maritime narrative in the Anthologies of Vettius Valens / Roger Beck -- Facts or fiction? : the fruitful relationship between ancient novel and literary miscellany / Hendrik Müller-Reineke -- Isis-epiphany in the Life of Aesop : a structural analytic approach / Grammatiki A. Karla -- Medicine and the novel : Apuleius' bonding with the educated reader / Regine May -- Pirates in the library / Nicolas Boulic and Françoise Létoublon -- Liminal games : fluidity of the sphragis of a novelist / Loreto Nuñez -- Tombs and stables, roofs and brothels, dens and raids in Lollianos' fragments / Angelo Casanova -- Erotic fiction and Christian sexual ethics in Nonnus' episode of Morrheus and Chalcomede / Fotini Hadjittofi -- Hagiographic romance : novelistic narrative strategy in Jerome's lives of hermits / Jiří Šubrt.

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26,



2008.