Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2018-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327606 |
Download Studies In Lucian Comic Fiction full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Studies In Lucian Comic Fiction ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2018-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327606 |
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004047600 |
Author | : ]. R. Morgan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317799364 |
First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the boundaries of the subject beyond the 'canon' of the romances properly called and examines Greek ficÂtional writing in the widest possible context, including texts that are not norÂmally treated as novels, such as various kinds of sacred or quasi-historical texts. The editors hope to open up the definition of Greek fiction to further debate and to create cross-currents between scholars working in diverse fields.
Author | : Joel Ralph Cohn |
Publisher | : Harvard Univ Asia Center |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674847118 |
Unlike traditional Japanese literature, with its rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness. Cohn analyzes works by three writers--Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993), Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934- )--that assault the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature.
Author | : N. Bryant Kirkland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197583512 |
"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--
Author | : John J. Winkler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1982-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521239478 |
A body of Greek literature collected in an attempt to draw attention to often underrated literary excellence.
Author | : C. W. Marshall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1472588851 |
Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.
Author | : Lucian (of Samosata.) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199258673 |
This is a selection of pieces by the Greek satirist Lucian. Lucian invented the comic dialogue as a satiric tool, and had immense influence on many later European literatures. He is also extremely funny, whether puncturing the pretensions of pompous philosophers or describing the daily lives of Greek courtesans. The translation aims to be lively and modern in idiom, while maintaining accuracy.