Narrating Desire : Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel

Representation of desiring subjects in the novel is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient gender and sexuality, for such narratives subject societal norms to acute critique. This volume brings together fourteen essays originally given as oral presentations at the Fourth Internat...

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Coauteur: International conference on the ancient novel (Auteur)
Andere auteurs: Futre Pinheiro, Marília Pulquério, 19..- (Publishing director), Skinner, Marilyn B., 1939- (Publishing director), Zeitlin, Froma I., 1933- (Publishing director)
Formaat: Livre numérique
Taal:Anglais
Gepubliceerd in: Berlin ; Boston, Mass. : De Gruyter 2012.
Berlin ; Boston :
Reeks:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes volume 14
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Online toegang:Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur
Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX
Accès Université d'Orléans
Opmerking: Textes présentés à la Fourth international conference on the ancient novel (ICAN IV), tenue à Lisbonne en juillet 2008
De Gruyter e-books Corpus Sciences de l'Antiquité (Licence nationale)
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Edition sous un autre format:• Narrating desire, eros, sex and gender in the ancient novel, edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Marilyn B. Skinner and Froma I. Zeitlin, 2012, Berlin, De Gruyter, 1 vol. (XI-289 p.), Trends in classics, 978-3-11-028182-8
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel
  • Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations
  • Gender and Ways of Organizing Space
  • Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel
  • Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii)
  • The Gardens of Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë
  • Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel
  • Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton
  • Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius
  • How to Be a Man: Towards a Sexual Definition of the Self in Achilles Tatius Novel Leucippe and Clitophon
  • Taking It Like a Man : Gender, Identity and the Body in Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon
  • Female Sexuality and Eroticism in the Greek Novel
  • The í Inside: Heliodoros Variations on the Bedtrick
  • Female Sexuality in Longus and Alciphron
  • Sexual Identity and Gender Transformations in Petronius and Apuleius
  • Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen
  • Anxiety and Influence: Ovid s Amores 3.7 and Encolpius Impotence in Satyricon 126 ff.
  • Petronius Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrica
  • Gender Transformations in Apuleius Metamorphoses
  • Composite Bibliography
  • Notes on
  • Contributors
  • Index Locorum
  • Subject Index