Narrating desire : eros, sex, and gender in the ancient novel /
Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the field of ancient sexuality, inquiry into major shifts in erotic consciousness is still in a preliminary stage. The essays in this collection, which focus upon the representation of the desiring subject in prose fiction, advance our understand...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Series: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel; Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations; Gender and Ways of Organizing Space; Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel; Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii); The Gardens of 'Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë'; Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel; Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton; Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius
- Petronius' Giton: Gender and Genre in the SatyricaGender Transformations in Apuleius' Metamorphoses; Composite Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index Locorum; Subject Index