Reader Immersion in Latin Prose and Verse Narrative

This book introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating how they encourage their readers to experience the fictional world and its inhabitants-the fictional characters-as if they were to some extent real

About the author

Luca Graverini is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena. He has published extensively on Apuleius and other ancient Greek and Latin novels, focusing especially on intertextuality, cultural identity, genre markers, emotions, truth and fiction, and serious and comic intent. His other interests include Augustan poetry, Pompeian poetic inscriptions, and Latin popular literature.

Product details

• Authors: Graverini Luca
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.12.2025
• EAN: 9780198956457
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895645-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form