TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doody,Margaret Anne
TI  - The true story of the novel
SN  - 0813521688
AV  - PN 3355 D691t 1996
U1  - 809.3 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Technique
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 531-553) and index; 	Introduction: In Search of the Ancient Novel --
Ch. I. The Ancient Novel --
Ch. II. Love and Suffering: The Stories of the Ancient Novels --
Ch. III. Goddesses and Virgins: The Freedoms of Chastity --
Ch. IV. Apollonius of Tyre and Heliodorus' Aithiopika: Fathers and Daughters, and Unriddling Mother's Plot --
Ch. V. Parody, Masculinity, and Metamorphosis: The Roman Novels of Petronius and Apuleius --
Ch. VI. The Novelistic Nature of Ancient Prose Fiction: Character, Dialogue, Setting, Images --
Ch. VII. Literary Self-Consciousness and Ancient Prose Fiction: Allusion, Narrative, Texts, and Readers --
Ch. VIII. The Ancient Novel, Religion, and Allegory --
Ch. IX. Ancient Novels and the Fiction of the Middle Ages --
Ch. X. The Ancient Novel in the Age of Print: Versions and Commentaries of the Renaissance --
Ch. XI. Novels in the Seventeenth Century: Histories of Fiction and Cultural Conflicts
N2  - 	
"One of the most successful literary lies," declares Margaret Anne Doody, "is the English claim to have invented the novel ... One of the best-kept literary secrets is the existence of novels in antiquity." In fact, as Doody goes on to demonstrate, the Novel of the Roman Empire is a joint product of Africa, Western Asia, and Europe. It is with this argument that The True Story of the Novel devastates and
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