Petronius and the anatomy of fiction / / Victoria Rimell [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Rimell Victoria
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 873/.01
• Soggetto topico: Satire, Latin - History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500; Fiction - Technique; Rhetoric, Ancient
• Soggetto geografico: Rome In literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-226) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Corporealities -- ; 1. Rhetorical red herrings -- ; 2. Behind the scenes -- ; 3. The beast within -- ; 4. From the horse's mouth -- ; 5. Bella intestina -- ; 6. Regurgitating Polyphemus -- ; 7. Scars of knowledge -- ; 8. How to eat Virgil -- ; 9. Ghost stories -- ; 10. Decomposing rhythms -- Conclusion: Licence and labyrinths -- ; App. I. The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon -- ; App. II. The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon -- ; App. III. Aen. 4.39 at Sat. 112: nec venit in mentem, quorum consderis arvis?
• Sommario/riassunto: Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.
• Altri titoli varianti: Petronius & the Anatomy of Fiction
• Titolo autorizzato: Petronius and the anatomy of fiction
• ISBN: 1-280-43647-6; 0-511-17803-4; 0-511-04261-2; 0-511-14854-2; 0-511-30538-9; 0-511-48235-3; 0-511-04583-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450642103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II