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  3. Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 May 2011
      07 April 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511975332
      9780521823913
      9781107491021
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975332
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 312 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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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 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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    'A highly intelligent study that is indubitably the result of profound meditation on the texts … Anyone studying the history of the novel should take a look at Whitmarsh's book.'

    Source: The Observer

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