Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel

Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel - Volume 1

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro & Stephen J. Harrison (eds)

Series: Ancient Narrative Supplementum 14.1

ISBN-13: 9789077922972

Publication year: 2011

Publication type: Book

Pages: XXII, 254

Cover: Hardcover

Format: 175 x 245 x 17 mm; 703 g; 1 full colour ill.

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The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature.

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Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Editors' Introduction xi

A RECEPTIONS IN THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLDS

Michael von Albrecht
Ovid and the Novel 3

Christopher Nappa
Lucilius & Declamation:A Petronian Intertext in Juvenal's First Satire 21

Michael W. Herren
The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister: One More Latin Novel? 33

Alicia Walker
Off the Page and Beyond Antiquity: Ancient Romance in Medieval Byzantine Silver 55

Willem J. Aerts
The Ismenias passage in the Byzantine Alexander Poem 69

Nunzio Bianchi
A neglected testimonium on Xenophon of Ephesus:Gregory Pardos 83

B RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN RECEPTIONS

Carl P.E. Springer
Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi 95

Heinz Hofmann
The Expositi of Lorenzo Gambara di Brescia:A Sixteenth-Century Adaptation in Latin Hexameters of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe 107

Elizabeth B. Bearden
Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and EkphrasticInterpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea 127

Michael Paschalis
Did Torquato Tasso classify the Aethiopica as epic poetry? 151

Carlos García Gual
The Ancient Novel and the Spanish Novel of the Golden Age 183

Roderick Beaton
Fielding's Tom Jones as a rewriting of the ancient novel:the second ‘best-kept secret' in English literature? 203

C MODERN PERSPECTIVES

Bo S. Svensson
Sigrid Combüchen's modern tale Parsifal (1998):Time and Narrative compared with Heliodorus' Aethiopica 217

Akihiko Watanabe
From Moral Reform to Democracy:The Ancient Novel in Modern Japan 227

Abstracts 243

Contributors 249

Indices 253
Index locorum 253
General index 254

Reviews

- Joël Thomas in Latomus ? (2015), 252-255
- José Carlos Araújo in Evphrosyne 42 (2014), 316-318
- Hélène Frangoulis in BMCR 2013.02.09, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-02-09.html

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