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

• Pubblicazione: Eelde : , : Barkhuis; Groningen : , : Groningen University Library, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Metaphor in literature; Classical fiction - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): HarrisonStephen; PaschalisMichael; FrangoulidisStavros
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Metaphor and the ancient novel
• ISBN: 94-91431-39-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996320839603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Ancient narrative. . -Supplementum ; ; 4.