Readers and writers in the ancient novel / edited by Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling.

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TextSeries: Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; ; 12.Publication details: [Eelde] : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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9789491431470
9491431471

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Contents:

The active reader and the ancient novel / David Konstan -- Dialogues between readers and writers in Lucian's Verae Histioriae / Marília Futre Pinheiro -- Divide and rule : segmenting Callirhoe and related works / Tim Whitmarsh -- The curious incident-- : polypragmosyne and the ancient novel / Richard Hunter -- Reading inscription in the ancient novel / Niall Slater -- Cite and sound : the prosaics of quotation in the ancient novel / Stephen Nimis -- Eumolpus the poet / Warreb S. Smith -- Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon / Michael Paschalis -- The uses of bookishness / Ewen Bowie -- Readers writing readers, and writers reading writers : reflections of Antonius Diogenes / John Morgan -- The author of the Alexander Romance / Richard Stoneman -- Reading Diktys : the discreet charm of Bogosity / Ken Dowden -- Apuleius and Homer : some traces of the Iliad in the Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison -- No success like failure : the task of the translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Richard Fletcher -- Roman fiction and its audience : seriocomic assertions of authority / Luca Graverini and Wytse Keulen -- 'Food for thought' for readers of Apuleius' The Golden Ass / Maaike Zimmerman -- To reason and to marvel : images of the reader in the Life of Apollonius / Jean-Philippe Guez -- Hating Homer, fighting Virgil : books in Augustine's Confessions / Vincent Hunink.

Summary: The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whi.

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The papers represented in this volume were originally delivered at the fourth conference on 'Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel' held at the University of Crete on 21-22 May 2007.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whi.

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