Petronius and the anatomy of fiction
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Publication
2002 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K, England
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3567830M
- ISBN-10052181586X
- OCLC Control Number49664540
- OCLC Control Numberpetroniusanatomy00rime
- Library of Congress Control Number2002067382
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- Goodreads1043827
Classifications
- DDC873/.01
- LCCPA6559 .R495 2002
Description
"Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first novel of the western tradition, has always sparked controversy. This innovative reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Victoria Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on a pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality."--Jacket.
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