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Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel

Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel

Futre Pinheiro, Marília P.
Konstan, David
Macqueen, Bruce Duncan

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, Book 40

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1501511955
ISBN13: 9781501511950
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 4 2017
Pages: 407
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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