TY - BOOK ID - 30704802 TI - Decoding the Ancient Novel PY - 2014 SN - 0691042381 1322019584 9781400860487 1400860482 9780691042381 0691606919 9780691606910 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Description (Rhetoric) KW - Greek fiction KW - Reader-response criticism KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - 875-31 KW - 875 ACHILLES TATIUS KW - 875 HELIODORUS EMESENUS KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - Reader-oriented criticism KW - Reception aesthetics KW - Criticism KW - Reading KW - 875-31 Griekse literatuur: roman KW - Griekse literatuur: roman KW - 875 HELIODORUS EMESENUS Griekse literatuur--HELIODORUS EMESENUS KW - Griekse literatuur--HELIODORUS EMESENUS KW - 875 ACHILLES TATIUS Griekse literatuur--ACHILLES TATIUS KW - Griekse literatuur--ACHILLES TATIUS KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Rhetoric KW - Achilles Tatius. KW - Heliodorus, KW - Reader-response criticism. KW - History and criticism. KW - Romances [Greek ] KW - Achilles Tatius KW - Description (Literature) KW - Rhetoric [Ancient ] KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - Achilles Tatius. -- Leucippe and Clitophon. KW - Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500. KW - Greek fiction -- History and criticism. KW - Heliodorus, -- of Emesa. -- Aethiopica. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30704802 AB - Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narrative proper, working to activate the audience's awareness of the play of meaning in the story. As the crucial elements in the evolution of a relationship in which the author arouses and then undermines the expectations of his readership, these passages provide the key to a better understanding and interpretation of these two most sophisticated of the ancient Greek romances.In many works of the Second Sophistic, descriptions of visual conveyors of meaning--artworks and dreams--signaled the presence of a deeper meaning. This meaning was revealed in the texts themselves through an interpretation furnished by the author. The two novels at hand, however, manipulate this convention of hermeneutic description by playing upon their readers' expectations and luring them into the trap of incorrect exegesis. Employed for different ends in the context of each work, this process has similar implications in both for the relationship between reader and author as it arises out of the former's involvement with the text.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -