The Ancient Romances

The Ancient Romances
Title The Ancient Romances PDF eBook
Author Ben Edwin Perry
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 428
Release 1967
Genre Civilization, Ancient, in literature
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The Ancient Romances

The Ancient Romances
Title The Ancient Romances PDF eBook
Author Ben E. Perry
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 420
Release 2023-07-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520313720

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Title Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel PDF eBook
Author Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 313
Release 2011-04-07
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1139500589

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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.

The Ancient Romances

The Ancient Romances
Title The Ancient Romances PDF eBook
Author Chester G. Starr
Publisher
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Release 1971
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Love, Eternally

Love, Eternally
Title Love, Eternally PDF eBook
Author Morgan O'Neill
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2023-01-15
Genre
ISBN 9780986193668

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An ancient curse propels talented flutist Gigi Perrin back to A.D. 408, to the court of the depraved Roman Emperor Honorius and his admirable sister, Princess Galla Placidia. There, Gigi grapples with her disbelief about what has happened, and with the strange, new world of violent politics, social upheaval and barbarians straining at the very gates of an empire. Through it all, she must struggle with her powerful attraction to a pagan senator and military commander, Quintus Magnus, a man exotically different from anyone she has ever known. On the brink of a dark and war-torn age, Gigi joins forces with Magnus, battling to save a princess and her people, and ultimately finding love amid the chaos, before the fall of Rome.

The History of Love: A Novel

The History of Love: A Novel
Title The History of Love: A Novel PDF eBook
Author Nicole Krauss
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 272
Release 2006-05-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0393342840

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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).

The Form of Greek Romance

The Form of Greek Romance
Title The Form of Greek Romance PDF eBook
Author B. P. Reardon
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 208
Release 2014-07-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1400861845

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In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of life, this form of literature emerged long after the other genres and, until recently, seemed hardly worthy of critical attention. Here B. P. Reardon addresses the growing interest in ancient fiction by providing a literary and cultural framework in which to understand Greek romance, and by demonstrating its importance as an artistic and social phenomenon. Beginning with a discussion of Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe, Reardon sets out the generic characteristics of the romance. He then moves through a wide range of works, including those of Longus and Heliodorus, and reveals their sophistication in terms of social observation, technique within a convention, and the stance adopted by the authors toward their own creations. Although antiquity left behind little discussion of the genre, Reardon shows how romance can be assessed within its time period by considering the practice of narrative in other Greek literature and the concept of fiction in antiquity. Originally published in 1991. 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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.