Ideal themes in the Greek and Roman novel. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jean Alvares.
• Authors: Alvares, Jean
• Contents: Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1.0 Introduction 1.1 The Importance of Considering Ideal Themes: An Overview 1.2 Some General Background 2.0 Theoretical Background 2.1 Myth-Symbolic-Structuralist Criticism: An Overview 2.2 Elements of Religion, Philosophy and Paideia 2.3 Myth Revised, History Transformed, the Sublime Encountered 2.4 Ideology, The Political Unconscious, The Not-Yet and The Inescapable Ideal: Frederic Jameson And Ernst Bloch 2.5 Marriage, Family Life, Idealization of Women 2.6 Love, Desire and Lacan 3. Chariton’s Callirhoe 4. Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe : Utopianizing Nostalgia, Anagogy and Eros 5. Heliodorus’s Aithiopika 6. Achilles Tatius’s Leukippe and Kleitophon 7. Apuleius’s Metamorphoses 8. A Brief Concluding Postscript Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 883.0109; Classical fiction -- History and criticism; Ideals (Philosophy) in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000456516; 9781000456479; 9781003036647
• Related ISBNs: 9780367472108
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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