Fiction on the Fringe: Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004175471)

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the "fringe" vs. the "canonical" or "erotic" novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the "fringe" from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other "fringe" texts.

Author: Grammatiki Karla
ISBN-10: 9004175474
ISBN-13: 9789004175471
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2009
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.30w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 248