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Record Nr.

UNISA996320839603316

Titolo

Metaphor and the ancient novel / / edited by Stephen Harrison, Michael Paschalis, Stavros Frangoulidis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eelde : , : Barkhuis

Groningen : , : Groningen University Library, , 2005

ISBN

94-91431-39-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Ancient narrative. Supplementum, , 1568-3540 ; ; 4

Soggetti

Metaphor in literature

Classical fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Introduction; Metaphor, Gender and the Ancient Greek Novel; Greek novel and the ritual of life: an exercise in taxonomy; Callirhoe: God-like Beauty and the Making of a Celebrity; The Narrator as Hunter: Longus, Virgil and Theocritus; Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe; Heliodorus smiles; And There's Another Country: Translation as Metaphor in Heliodorus; 'Phillip the Philosopher' on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus; Trimalchio: Naming Power; 'Waves of Emotion': An Epic Metaphor in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Sweet and Dangerous? A Literary Metaphor (aures permilcere) in Apuleius' Prologue

A Pivotal Metaphor in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Aristomenes' and Luscius' Death and RebirthReal and Metaphorical Mimicking Birds in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius; Metaphor and the riddle of representation in the HIstoria Apollonii regis Tyri; Metaphor and politics in John Barclay's Argenis (1621); Indices

Sommario/riassunto

This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN 2) under the same title, held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, on May 19-20, 2003.Though research into metaphor has reached staggering proportions over the past twenty-five years, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to the subject of metaphor in relation to the ancient novel. Not every



contributor takes into account theoretical discussions of metap