{"product_id":"amphoteroglossia-a-poetics-of-the-twelfthcentury-medieval-greek-novel-9780674017917","title":"Amphoteroglossia  A Poetics of the TwelfthCentury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. Rollos investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in Byzantine society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmphoteroglossia,\u003c\/i\u003e in its analysis of rhetorical manipulations, generic complexity, and the various tensions made possible by the novels' \"discursive plasticity\", is undoubtedly the most thorough and most perceptive study ever written of these works, and one from which the Byzantine writer comes through forcefully as one fiercely determined to show his independence while artistically keeping within the overlying strictures of the rhetoric of the Second Sophistic; but it is an independence susceptible to appreciation only by highly sophisticated readers, both ancient and modern. \u003ci\u003eAmphoteroglossia\u003c\/i\u003e is, moreover, destined to retain for decades to come the priceless ability to provoke further analysis and evaluation. -- A. Littlewood * Speculum *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49917772038487,"sku":"9780674017917","price":22.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674017917.jpg?v=1738449137","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amphoteroglossia-a-poetics-of-the-twelfthcentury-medieval-greek-novel-9780674017917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}