Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Rimell is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Rome, La Sapieza. She has published Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction (2002), Ovid's Lovers (2006) and Martial's Rome (2008), and has also contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (edited by Kirk Freudenberg, 2005) and Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (edited by Jason Konig and Tim Whitmarsh, 2007). Klappentext This book explores corporeality as a metaphor and its implications for the unity of the text. Zusammenfassung Usually seen just as an index of the 'low' genre of Petronius' Satyricon! corporeality is here explored as a metaphor and it is argued that! on the level of imagery! the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: corporealities; 1. Rhetorical red herrings; 2. Behind the scenes; 3. The beast within; 4. From the horse's mouth; 5. Bella intestina; 6. Regurgitating Polyphemus; 7. Scars of knowledge; 8. How to eat Virgil; 9. Ghost stories; 10. Decomposing rhythms; 11. Conclusion: licence and labyrinths; Appendices; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; Index of subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Victoria E. Rimell, Victoria Rimell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2007
• EAN: 9780521037013
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03701-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval