Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel
Authors and readers Classical fiction Classical literature Conference proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc History sähkökirjat
Barkhuis
2009
EISBN 9789491431470
Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Active Reader and the Ancient Novel; Divide and Rule: Segmenting Callirhoe and Related Works; The Curious Incident ... : polypragmosyne and the Ancient Novel; Reading Inscription in the Ancient Novel; Cite and Sound: The Prosaics of Quotation in the Ancient Novel; Eumolpus the Poet; Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon; The Uses of Bookishness; Readers writing Readers, and Writers reading Writers: Reflections of Antonius Diogenes; The Author of the Alexander Romance; Reading Diktys: The Discrete Charm of Bogosity.
The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whi.
The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whi.
