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The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre, Hardback Book

The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre Hardback

Edited by Gareth Schmeling, Marilia P. Futre Pinheiro, Edmund P. Cueva

Part of the Ancient Narrative Supplementum series

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Despite the fact that postmodern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels.

The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kind and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the canon.

The essays explore a wide variety of texts, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the boundaries of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity.

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