The true story of the novel / Margaret Anne Doody.

By:

Doody, Margaret Anne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1996.Description: xx, 580 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:

0813521688

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DDC classification:

809.3 20

LOC classification:

PN 3355 D691t 1996

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso)	PN 3355 D691t 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000127350

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.

"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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