Crafting Characters

Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel

Автор: Koen De Temmerman

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Издател: Oxford University Press

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The oldest European novels were written in ancient Greek during the first few centuries of the Commo...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Koen De Temmerman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2014

страници

420

EAN

9780199686148

ISBN

0199686149

Enbook ID

04534843

Издател

Oxford University Press

Теглоt

768

Размери

238 x 165 x 28

Пълно описание

The oldest European novels were written in ancient Greek during the first few centuries of the Common Era. Despite the gold rush towards these novels in the last two decades and the resurgence of interest in representations of character in literary studies, and Classical studies in particular, no volume has yet been devoted to exploring character and characterization in the ancient Greek novels. This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels (those of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, and Heliodorus). De Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterization used in each novel and combines modern-mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist-narratology and ancient rhetoric. He argues that three conceptual couples central to ancient theory of character, typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character, construct character in these narratives more ambiguously, more elusively, and in more complex ways than has so far been realized. Throughout the different chapters, it also becomes clear how intimately presentations of character are intertwined with self-portrayal and performance of the self.

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