Les Lieux Communs Du Roman: Stereotypes Grecs D'Aventure Et D'Amour (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (French Edition) - Hardcover
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The author uses an extensive study of the five Greek novels preserved by tradition since Roman times (Chariton, Chaireas and Callirhoe, Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca, Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, Heliodorus, Ethiopica) to show how the novel form, from its origins, has been based upon the repetition of commonplaces, τόποι, which allows an interplay with the reader.
The commonest of these commonplaces, love-Eros, provides the plot of the five novels, in an order which is itself topical: meeting and love at first sight, wounds of love and lovesickness, lovers separated, lovers put to the test by the sea and by pirates, lovers reunited. The heroes of Greek novels, always young, good-looking and well-born (even if their identities are left unclear), allow for easy reader identification.
From Xenophon of Ephesus (the most primitive form of the novel) to the Ethiopica (a true work of art), the Greek novel had already explored all the main narrative possibilities of the genre.
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Text: French
Review
'There is much here, not only for Hellenists, but for anyone interested in the novel as a genre.'
Jenny March, Greece & Rome, 1994.
'...has a lot to offer.'
John Hilton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1994.
'...valeur excellente...'
A. Wouters, Revue des Livres, 1994.
'...an intellectual sensitive book...'
S. Wiersma, Mnemosyne, 1995.
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Brill, Leiden (.), 1993. [XXVI],248p. ills. Original grey gilt titled cloth. With dust wrps. Series: Mnemosyne, Supplementum centesium vicesimum tertium. 'This study sets out to provide a thematic analysis of the principal representatives of Greek prose fiction: the novels of Achilles Tatius, Chariton, Heliodorus, Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus. Concentrating on the romantic aspect of these works, L. includes sections on themes such as the presentation of hero and heroine, the family, the progression of love, obstacles met by the couple and the types of minor character. (.) L.'s thematic comparisons between the Greek novels result in some interesting suggestions and insights. She points out for example the role of the travel motif as a concretisation of the lovers' impulse towards each other. L.'s findings also lead her to support the suggestion that Achilles Tatius' novel is consciously parodic. In the comparisons between novels, Heliodorus' treatment of the romance themes naturally emerges as particular. L. notes, for example, the 'partial and focalised' presentation of the hero and heroine in this novel; elsewhere, analysis of the mother figures reveals Persinna as an unusually strong figure.' (RUTH WEBB in The Classical Review (New Series), 1994, pp.274-75). Seller Inventory # 43500
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