Decoding the Ancient Novel : : The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius / / Shadi Bartsch.
Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental...
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Bartsch, Shadi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Decoding the Ancient Novel : The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius / Shadi Bartsch. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1989 1 online resource (212 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1022 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic -- TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens -- THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation -- FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright -- FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader -- SIX. The Role of Description -- APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narrative proper, working to activate the audience's awareness of the play of meaning in the story. As the crucial elements in the evolution of a relationship in which the author arouses and then undermines the expectations of his readership, these passages provide the key to a better understanding and interpretation of these two most sophisticated of the ancient Greek romances.In many works of the Second Sophistic, descriptions of visual conveyors of meaning--artworks and dreams--signaled the presence of a deeper meaning. This meaning was revealed in the texts themselves through an interpretation furnished by the author. The two novels at hand, however, manipulate this convention of hermeneutic description by playing upon their readers' expectations and luring them into the trap of incorrect exegesis. Employed for different ends in the context of each work, this process has similar implications in both for the relationship between reader and author as it arises out of the former's involvement with the text.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Description (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Greek fiction History and criticism. Reader-response criticism. Rhetoric, Ancient. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691606910 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860487 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400860487 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400860487.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic -- TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens -- THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation -- FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright -- FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader -- SIX. The Role of Description -- APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic -- TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens -- THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation -- FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright -- FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader -- SIX. The Role of Description -- APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index |
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