Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel : returning romance / Tim Whitmarsh.

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"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 (us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whitmarsh, Tim
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Series:	Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subjects:	Greek fiction > History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Physical Description:	xii, 299 pages .
Format:	Book

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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.