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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 narr



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic, pg. 3*TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens, pg. 40*THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation, pg. 80*FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright, pg. 109*FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader, pg. 144*SIX. The Role of Description, pg. 171*APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica, pg. 179*Bibliography, pg. 185*Index Locorum, pg. 191*General Index, pg. 196

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691606910, 978-0691606910
      ISBN10: 0691606919

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 narr



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic, pg. 3*TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens, pg. 40*THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation, pg. 80*FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright, pg. 109*FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader, pg. 144*SIX. The Role of Description, pg. 171*APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica, pg. 179*Bibliography, pg. 185*Index Locorum, pg. 191*General Index, pg. 196

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