TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitmarsh,Tim
TI  - Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel: returning romance 
T2  - Greek culture in the Roman world
SN  - 9780521823913 (hardback)
U1  - 883/.0109 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Greek fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-294) and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Returning Romance; 1. First romances: Chariton and Xenophon; 2. Transforming romance: Achilles Tatius and Longus; 3. Hellenism at the edge: Heliodorus; Part II. Narrative and Identity: 4. Pothos; 5. Telos; 6. Limen; Conclusion; Appendix: the extant romances and the larger fragments
N2  - "The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"--
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