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 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Gareth Schmeling & Edmund P. Cueva |2014 Despite the fact that postmodern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series… |
 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Judith Perkins & Richard Pervo (eds.) |2013 This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer… |
 | Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis (eds.) |2013 The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, 'The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel,' allows the… |
 | Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson and Ian Netton (eds.) |2012 The story of Alexander became the subject of legend in the medieval west, but was perhaps even more pervasive in the east. The Alexander Romance was translated into Syriac in the sixth century and may have become current in Persia as early… |
 | Konstantin Doulamis (ed.) |2011 Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a… |