Fictional Traces

Receptions of the Ancient Novel - Volume 1

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Stephen J. Harrison, Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Stephen J. Harrison

• Publisher: Barkhuis
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789077922972
• eBook ISBN: 9789491431494
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Editor's Introduction
• Ovid and the Novel
• Lucilius and Declamation: A Petronian Intertext in Juvenal's First Satire
• The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister: One More Latin Novel?
• Off the Page and Beyond Antiquity: Ancient Romance in Medieval Byzantine Silver
• The Ismenias passage in the Byzantine Alexander Poem
• A neglected testimonium on Xenophon of Ephesus: Gregory Pardos
• Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi
• The Expositi of Lorenzo Gambara di Brescia: A Sixteenth-Century Adaptation in Latin Hexameters of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
• Converso Convertida: Cross-dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea
• Did Torquato Tasso classify the Aethiopica as epic poetry?
• The Ancient Novel and the Spanish Novel of the Golden Age
• Fielding's Tom Jones as a rewriting of the ancient novel: the second 'best-kept secret' in English literature?
• Sigrid Combuchen's modern tale Parsifal (1998): Time and Narrative compared with Heliodorus' Aethiopica
• From Moral Reform to Democracy: The Ancient Novel in Modern Japan
• Abstracts
• Contributors
• Indices