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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-004.mrc:210791208:2586
Source marc_columbia
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008 940426s1995 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 94016557
020 $a0415107520 (hbk.)
020 $a0415107539 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)30476455
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm30476455
035 $9AKT1011CU
035 $a(NNC)1666395
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB
041 1 $aeng$hger
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050 00 $aPA3040$b.H6513 1995
082 00 $a883/.01$220
100 1 $aHolzberg, Niklas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81141311
240 10 $aAntike Roman.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94041064
245 14 $aThe ancient novel :$ban introduction /$cNiklas Holzberg ; translated by Christine Jackson-Holzberg.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1995.
300 $aix, 129 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 106-126) and index.
505 0 $a1. The Genre. A conventional plot: Xenophon's Ephesiaca. The surviving texts. Ancient labels. Characteristics of the idealistic and comic-realistic novels. The fringe: other novel-like literature of antiquity. A definition of the genre -- 2. The Rise of the Genre. Theories on the origins. The novel as a product of political, social and cultural upheavals. The novel as 'closet drama' and 'bourgeois prose epic'. The novel's ancient readership. Novel and historiography. Ninus. Sesonchosis. A genre is born -- 3. The Idealistic Novel in Early Imperial Times. Chariton, Callirhoe. Other novels in historical dress: Parthenope, Chione, Calligone. A string of adventures: Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca. Lollianus, Phoenicica. An attempt to diversify: Antonius Diogenes, The Wonders Beyond Thule -- 4. The Comic-Realistic Novel. A Greek comic-realistic novel in prose and verse: Iolaus. Topsy-turvy world: Petronius, Satyrica. Appearances and reality: the Greek Ass Romance.
505 8 $aSatire, Platonism and mysteries: Apuleius, Metamorphoses -- 5. The Idealistic Novel in the Age of the Second Sophistic. Wallowing in lurid effects: Iamblichus, Babyloniaca. Adding the human touch: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon. Sexual psychology and bucolic paradise: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe. Acme of narrative technique: Heliodorus, Aethiopica.
650 0 $aClassical fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120355
852 00 $bglx$hPA3040$i.H6513 1995