Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon
by Helen Morales
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Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, long regarded as the most controversial of the ancient Greek novels, is an outrageous tale of love and loss, of Phoenicians and philosophers, virginity tests and snuff murders. This book, the first published monograph on Achilles Tatius, is a study of Leucippe and Clitophon in its literary and visual contexts. It presents fresh insights into the work's narrative complexities and interpretative difficulties. It is particularly concerned with the show more novel's obsessions with the eye, with theories, descriptions, and metaphorics of the visual. It advances a reading that gives full play to the narrative's 'disgressions' - ekphrasis, sententia, blason, and spectacle - and discusses the politics of digressivity. This book is written to be accessible to non-specialists and all Greek is translated or paraphrased. It aims to contribute to a cultural history of viewing and to feminist literary criticism, as well as to the study of the ancient novel. show lessTags
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Helen Morales holds the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Morales is the author of Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction and Pilgrimage to Dollywood: A Country Music Road Trip Through Tennessee. She lives with her family in Santa Barbara.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry, Romance
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- 883.01 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek epic poetry and fiction Pseudo-Callisthenes
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- PA3819 .Z5 .M67 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Greek literature Individual authors
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