Author

Publication

2004 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing578945
  • Goodreads1077999

Classifications

  • DDC883/.01
  • LCCPA3819.Z5 M67 2004

Description

"This book, the first published monograph on Achilles Tatius, is a study of Leucippe and Clitophon in its literary and visual contexts. It presents fresh insights into the work's narrative complexities and interpretative difficulties. It is particularly concerned with the novel's obsessions with the eye, with theories, descriptions and metaphorics of the visual. It advances a reading that gives full play to the narrative's 'digressions' - ekphrasis, sententia, blason and spectacle - and discusses the politics of digressivity. This book is written to be accessible to non-specialists and all Greek is translated or paraphrased. It aims to contribute to a cultural history of viewing and to feminist literary criticism, as well as to the study of the ancient novel."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cambridge classical studies

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