Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals) - The Novel in the Graeco-Roman World

List of contents

Preface; Abbreviations 1. The First Fiction: Oriental Origins 2. Narrative into Novel: Plots and Personalities 3. Love and Learning 4. Character and Convention 5. Myth and Mystery 6. History and Society 7. Sex and Sentiment 8. Structure and Suspense 9. The Sublime and the Subliterary: Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus 10. Phoenician Tales and other Fragments 11. Fiction and Folktale 12. In Search of the Satyricon 13. The Ancestry of the Ass-Tale 14. The Golden Satyr, or Encolpius the Ass 15. 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 Texs; Index of Persons and Places

Summary

Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Anderson, Graham (University of Kent Anderson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781138013223
• ISBN: 978-1-138-01322-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Ancient Languages