Decoding the Ancient Novel. The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (Princeton Legacy Library, 1022).

Bartsch, Shadi:

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Published by Princeton University Press. 01.10.1989., 1989

0691042381 / 9780691042381

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X, 201 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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 meaningartworks and dreamssignaled 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 impheations in both for the relationship between reader and author as it arises out of the former's involvement with the text. ISBN 9780691042381 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428 15,2 x 1,9 x 22,9 cm, Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket.…

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Decoding the Ancient Novel. The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (Princeton Legacy Library, 1022).
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Bartsch, Shadi:
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Princeton University Press. 01.10.1989.
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1989
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English
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