Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan, Bruce Duncan MacQueen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

397 Seiten

2019
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-1942-0 (ISBN)

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The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss “mapping the world in the novels.” The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.

M. P. Futre Pinheiro, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; D. Konstan, New York University, USA; B. D. MacQueen, University of Tulsa, USA.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 40
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	704 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Ancient Novel • cross-cultural • Fiction • space
ISBN-10	1-5015-1942-5 / 1501519425
ISBN-13	978-1-5015-1942-0 / 9781501519420
Zustand	Neuware