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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2023
      May 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009339605
      9781009339599
      9781009339575
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009339605
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 208 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 208 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Literary Theory
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    The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the distinct quality of ancient narrative and its understanding in antiquity. Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory paves the way for a new approach to ancient narrative that investigates its specific logic. Jonas Grethlein's sophisticated discussion of a wide range of literary texts in conjunction with works of criticism sheds new light on such central issues as fictionality, voice, Theory of Mind and narrative motivation. The book provides classicists with an introduction to ancient views of narrative but is also a major contribution to a historically sensitive theory of narrative.

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    ‘[An] original and significant monograph whose combination of theoretically sophisticated examinations of key concepts of narratology with innovative and persuasive close readings of texts from Homer to Heliodorus attest to its potential to cut across disciplinary boundaries and to attract not only classicists but also scholars in comparative literature, in medieval and modern languages, and in performance and media studies departments.’

    Nebojša Todorović Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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