Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age (Mnemosyne Supplements; Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 310) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004175474 ISBN 13: 9789004175471

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the "Life of Aesop", the "Life of Alexander the Great", and the "Acts of the Christian Martyrs". Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the 'fringe' vs. the 'canonical' or 'erotic' novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the 'fringe' from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other 'fringe' texts.

About this title

About the Author:

Grammatiki A. Karla (PhD 2000, Freie Universitat Berlin), is lecturer in Greek Literature at the University of Athens. She has published extensively on the Life of Aesop including Vita Aesopi. Uberlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer fruhbyzantinischen Fassung des Asopromans (Wiesbaden 2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9004175474
• ISBN 13: 9789004175471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Karla Grammatki A.