Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics and Rhetoric (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789493194540)

In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as "Second Sophistic". Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore signi cant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.

Author: Marília Futre Pinheiro
ISBN-10: 949319454X
ISBN-13: 9789493194540
Publisher: Barkhuis
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2023
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover