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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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