Readers and writers in the ancient novel / / edited by Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling

• Pubblicazione: Eelde : , : Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen : , : Groningen University Library, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3
• Soggetto topico: Classical literature - History and criticism; Classical fiction - History and criticism; Authors and readers - History
• Persona (resp. second.): PaschalisMichael; PanayotakisStelios <1968->; SchmelingGareth L.
• Note generali: The papers represented in this volume were originally delivered at the fourth conference on 'Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel' held at the University of Crete on 21-22 May 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The active reader and the ancient novel / David Konstan -- Dialogues between readers and writers in Lucian's Verae Histioriae / Marília Futre Pinheiro -- Divide and rule : segmenting Callirhoe and related works / Tim Whitmarsh -- The curious incident-- : polypragmosyne and the ancient novel / Richard Hunter -- Reading inscription in the ancient novel / Niall Slater -- Cite and sound : the prosaics of quotation in the ancient novel / Stephen Nimis -- Eumolpus the poet / Warreb S. Smith -- Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon / Michael Paschalis -- The uses of bookishness / Ewen Bowie -- Readers writing readers, and writers reading writers : reflections of Antonius Diogenes / John Morgan -- The author of the Alexander Romance / Richard Stoneman -- Reading Diktys : the discreet charm of Bogosity / Ken Dowden -- Apuleius and Homer : some traces of the Iliad in the Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison -- No success like failure : the task of the translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Richard Fletcher -- Roman fiction and its audience : seriocomic assertions of authority / Luca Graverini and Wytse Keulen -- 'Food for thought' for readers of Apuleius' The Golden Ass / Maaike Zimmerman -- To reason and to marvel : images of the reader in the Life of Apollonius / Jean-Philippe Guez -- Hating Homer, fighting Virgil : books in Augustine's Confessions / Vincent Hunink.
• Sommario/riassunto: The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whi
• Titolo autorizzato: Readers and writers in the ancient novel
• ISBN: 94-91431-47-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996320839303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Ancient narrative. . -Supplementum ; ; 12.