Narrating desire : eros, sex, and gender in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner, Froma I. Zeitlinches.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the field of ancient sexuality, inquiry into major shifts in erotic consciousness is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection, which focus upon the representation of the desiring subject in prose fiction, advance our understanding considerably as they probe the ambiguities surrounding the ostensible opposition of male and female in such texts. The volume will provide a needed point of departure for subsequent research into modifications to gender frameworks at a time of social transition.

Introduction; Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel; Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations; Gender and Ways of Organizing Space; Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel; Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii); The Gardens of 'Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë'; Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel; Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton; Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius

Petronius' Giton: Gender and Genre in the SatyricaGender Transformations in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Composite Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index Locorum; Subject Index

In English.

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