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Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age
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Edited by:
Grammatiki Karla
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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About this book
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the “fringe” vs. the “canonical” or “erotic” novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the “fringe” from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other “fringe” texts.
Author / Editor information
Grammatiki A. Karla (PhD 2000, Freie Universität Berlin), is lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Athens. She has published extensively on the Life of Aesop including Vita Aesopi. Überlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer frühbyzantinischen Fassung des Äsopromans (Wiesbaden 2001).
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eBook published on:
May 20, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9789047428916
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Main content:
194
eBook ISBN:
9789047428916
Keywords for this book
Ancient novel; novelistic writing; fringe; Life of Aesop; Life of Alexander the Great; Cyropaedia; Acts of Christian Martyrs
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in ancient Greek literature, narrative, fiction, literary history, and comparative literature
