TY - BOOK ID - 3337483 TI - Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel PY - 2011 VL - *12 SN - 9780521823913 0521823919 9780511975332 9781107491021 1107491029 1139036432 1107225523 9786613055101 1139041894 1139041126 113904267X 1139038753 0511975333 1283055104 113904530X 9781139042673 9781139038751 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Greek fiction KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Roman grec KW - Narration KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Histoire et critique KW - Histoire KW - Literary collections KW - Ancient, Classical & Medieval KW - Ancient, Classical & Medieval. KW - History and criticism KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Rhetoric KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Narratees (Rhetoric) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3337483 AB - "The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory"-- ER -