Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Returning Romance
Part of Greek Culture in the Roman World
- Author: Tim Whitmarsh, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Date Published: March 2011
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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.
Read more- Offers a new interpretation of the ancient Greek romance by an acknowledged expert
- Provides a sophisticated account of the romance as a form, using a range of narrative theories
- Locates the romance in the context of the identity politics of the early Imperial period, offering a new perspective on the cultural history of the Greek world under Rome
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'A highly intelligent study that is indubitably the result of profound meditation on the texts … Anyone studying the history of the novel should take a look at Whitmarsh's book.' The Observer
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139037204
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Returning Romance
1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon
2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus
3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus
Part II. Narrative and Identity:
4. Pothos
5. Telos
6. Limen
Conclusion
Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments.
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