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  1. Decoding the ancient novel
    the reader and the role of description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

    Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic --TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens --THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation... more

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    Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic --TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens --THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation --FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright --FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader --SIX. The Role of Description --APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica --Bibliography --Index Locorum --General Index. Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narrative proper, working to activate the audience's awareness of the play of meaning in the story. As the crucial elements in the evolution of a relationship in which the author arouses and then undermines the expectations of his readership, these passages provide the key to a better understanding and interpretation of these two most sophisticated of the ancient Greek romances. In many works of the Second Sophistic, descriptions of visual conveyors of meaning--artworks and dreams--signaled the presence of a deeper meaning. This meaning was revealed in the texts themselves through an interpretation furnished by the author. The two novels at hand, however, manipulate this convention of hermeneutic description by playing upon their readers' expectations and luring them into the trap of incorrect exegesis. Employed for different ends in the context of each work, this process has similar implications in both for the relationship between reader and author as it arises out of the former's involvement with the text. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400860487; 1400860482
    Series: Princeton legacy library
    Subjects: Greek fiction; Description (Rhetoric); Reader-response criticism; Rhetoric, Ancient; Greek fiction; Description (Rhetoric); POETRY ; General; Description (Rhetoric); Greek fiction; Reader-response criticism; Rhetoric, Ancient; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Other subjects: Achilles Tatius; Heliodorus; Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon
    Scope: Online Ressource (212 pages)
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    Includes indexes. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190). - Print version record
  2. Decoding the ancient novel
    the reader and the role of description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
    Author: Bartsch, Shadi
    Published: [1989]; © 1989
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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