Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel

Poetics and Rhetoric

Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo, Stephen A. Nimis, Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo, Stephen A. Nimis

• Publisher: Barkhuis
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9789493194540
• eBook ISBN: 9789493194649
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as "Second Sophistic". Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore signi cant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• I MODERN CRITICAL THEORY
• Trials and their Narrative Functions in the Ancient Novel
• Erotic Neoteny in Longus’ Daphnis And Chloe
• Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius: Magic, Gorgianism, Asianism
• II POETICS
• The Mimetic Concept of Homoiotes in the Structure of Heliodorus’ Novel
• On the Idea of Homer in the Ancient Novel: A Study of Direct References to the Father of Classical Literature
• Gold, Purple, and the Mystery of the Shell: Reflections in Achilles Tatius
• III RHETORIC
• Sentimental Education and Rhetoric in Daphnis and Chloe: Seasonal ekphrasis
• Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
• The Riddle Game in Apollonius of Tyre
• Progymnasmatic Features in Heliodorus’ Characterizations
• Performative Stage Directions in the Satyrica’s Inquits
• Prophetic Myths and Pictured Recollections: Rhetoric of Ecphrasis in Moschus’ Europa and in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon
• The Evidence of Composition with progymnasmata in Eustathios Makrembolites’ Novel
• Abstracts
• Contributors
• Indices