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Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
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Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius

Shadi Bartsch
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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 narr

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
212
ISBN
9780691635606

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 narr

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
212
ISBN
9780691635606

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