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Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel - Returning Romance (Hardcover)
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Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel - Returning Romance (Hardcover)
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 fresh 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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