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082	0	0	_a883/.0109 _223 _bWHN 2011
100	1		_aWhitmarsh, Tim.
245	1	0	_aNarrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : _breturning romance / _cby Tim Whitmarsh.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_axii, 299 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aGreek culture in the Roman world
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-294) and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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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650		0	_aGreek fiction _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNarration (Rhetoric) _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval _2bisacsh.
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