Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel, 2 Volume Set : Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts.
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- Ancient Narrative Supplements Series ; v.24 .
- Ancient Narrative Supplements Series .
Intro -- Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel Volume 1: Greek Novels -- Contents -- Preface -- Landmarks and Turning Points in the Study of the Ancient Novel since the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisbon, 2008 -- Longus -- Longus' Hyperreality: Daphnis and Chloe as a Meta-text about Mimesis and Simulation -- Progress of Erotic Customs in the Ancient Novel: Three Parthenoi and Chloe in Longus' Poimenikà -- A 19th-Century 'Milesian Tale': Settembrini's Neoplatonici -- Trent, Literary Theory, and Sixteenth-Century Adaptations of Daphnis and Chloe -- Achilles Tatius -- In the Mouth of the Crocodile: Interiors, Exteriors, and Problems of Penetrability in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe And Clitophon* -- From the Neck up: Kissing and Other Oral Obsessions in Achilles Tatius -- Doing Philosophy in the Elephant's Mouth: Three Readings of Two Ekphrases in Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, IV, 2-5 -- Achilles Tatius' Ecphraseis of Abused Female Bodies: Interplays of Gendered Metafiction and Intensity -- Heliodorus -- The Dynamics of Summing up: A Metaliterary Reading of Heliodorus 10,36 and 10,39 -- Heliodorus and Pythagoras -- Charicleia the Bacchante: Erōs and Genealogy in Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- The Reception of Heliodorus between the Sixteenth and the Eighteenth Centuries -- Heliodorus and Pythagoras -- Charicleia the Bacchante: Erōs and Genealogy in Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- The Reception of Heliodorus between the Sixteenth and the Eighteenth Centuries -- Introduction Heliodorus Redivivus: From the Manuscripts to the First Editions and Translations -- Knowing Heliodorus: The Reception of the Aethiopica in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England -- Tasso, the Aethiopica, and the Debate on Literary Genres between Renaissance and Baroque. The Serial Dramatization: Alexander Hardy's Tragicomedy Théagène et Cariclée -- What Did Heliodorus' Name Stand for in the Works of Mlle De Scudéry? -- A Commodified Heliodorus: The German Translation of the Aithiopika in Context -- Contributors -- Abstracts -- Indices -- Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts -- Contents -- Petronius -- The Light in Troy (Petr. 89): Imitation of Archaic (and Modern) Tragedy and Discovery of Virgil's New Epic -- Social Reproduction among Petronius' Freedmen -- Apuleius -- Fabulae, Humanity, and Fortune: Towards a Reading of Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- Cupid and Psyche and the Illumination of the Unseen -- The Entertaining Function of Magic and Mystical Silence in Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- 'Seeing the Truth': Some Remarks on Color(s) and Meaning in Apuleius' Golden Ass -- Magic and Continuity in Apuleius: Isis from Witchcraft to Mystery Cults -- Human and Animal Touch in Apuleius' Golden Ass -- Robbers, Matrons, and the Roman Identity of Haemus' Tale in Apul. Met. 7,5-8* -- Antonius Diogenes -- Language and Style in Antonius Diogenes: Atticism and the Second Sophistic* -- Protagoras Romance -- Speech Acts and Genre Games in the Protagoras Romance -- Phlegon -- Phlegon's Marvels in Context -- Historia Apollonii regis Tyri -- The Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri and the Transformation of Civic Power in the Late Empire -- Miscellaneous -- Late Egyptian Literary Tales -- Non-Retaliation in the Acts of Philip -- Olfactoring Ancient Fictions: Fair and Foul Fragrances in Ancient Novels -- Contributors -- Abstracts -- Indices.
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