Ancient Fiction: The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World - Hardcover

Ancient Fiction: The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World.

Zustand: Gut. 248 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, capable of at least wrestling with the problems inherent in extended prose fiction. The works they produced are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage as old as the oldest literature known to us. -- This study of the Graeco-Roman novels rests on new foundations. It points to a new range of Ancient Near Eastern texts which underlie the tales retold by the novelists, and in so doing provides the long-awaited solution to Rohde's celebrated problem, the Origins of the Greek Novel. It also offers new contexts for recent puzzling papyrus fragments and provides a new key to the versions of the Ass-Tale, and most important, the outline of a continuous oriental tradition to which Petronius' Satyricon belongs. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a likely classical Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. -- The new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the range and achievement of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, organising an order of events, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, writers such as Longus, Heliodorus, or Achilles Tatius knew what they were doing and found their own way of doing it with conviction. Their work is worthy of sympathetic study rather than dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world. -- Graham Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- The First Fiction: Oriental -- Origins -- Narrative into Novel; Plots and Personalities -- Love and Learning -- Character and Convention -- Myth and Mystery -- History and Society -- Sex and Sentiment -- Structure and Suspense -- The Sublime and the Subliterary: -- Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus -- Phoenician Tales and other Fragments -- Fiction and Folktale -- In Search of the Satyricon -- The Ancestry of the Ass-Tale -- The Golden Satyr, or Encolpius the Ass -- New Perspectives -- Appendix I: Philetas' Speech and the -- Numun- Plant -- Appendix II: Sesonchosis and Ramin -- Appendix III: Ascyltus and Shukalletuda -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Authors and Texts -- Index of Persons and Places -- Cover photograph of Longus the novelist is reproduced by courtesy of the Sheridan Photo Library. ISBN 9780389205166 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 15,2 x 2,5 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1181650

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