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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire Hardcover - 1996

by Suzanne MacAlister


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This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.

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The ordered and predictable lives of a well-born, chaste and beautiful young woman and a well-born, beautiful young man are disrupted by their meeting and falling instantly in love.

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  • Title Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
  • Author Suzanne MacAlister
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition, 1
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 1996-09-05
  • ISBN 9780415070058 / 0415070058
  • Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.69 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.75 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature and society - Greece, Greek fiction - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95051016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 883.010

About the author

Suzanne MacAlister is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature and Classical Civilisation at the University of Sydney. She has published on dreams, gender symbolism and the novels in late Antiquity and twelfth-century Byzantium.

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Routledge, London / New York, 1996. IX,235p. Original black silver titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps at head spine a little bit wrinkled. A few light remains of pencil annotations and markings on endpapers, in preface and from pp.1-3. Dr MacAlister chooses to investigate this world (the world of the Greek novel op ost classical Greek and Byzantine literature - ND) through two common plot elements, dreams and suicide (or suicidal intention). She uses these two features of the novel to point up an overall emphasis in these works on the characters' sense of helplessness in the face of an all-controlling Chance whose workings they cannot fathom, and their anxieties in this situation. In her analysis of the place of dreams in the plots of the ancient Greek novels, she makes use of ancient dream interpretation. In considering suicide, she takes as her starting-point Durkheim's work on suicide and its connection with an individual's relationship with his or her society, and the strength or… Read More
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London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 235 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and indexes. Contents; 1. A Response to Uncertainty. Russian roulette. A conjunction of hope, despair and revelation. A conjunction of love, despair and death -- 2. Cultural Meanings Subjected to Reflection. Dignity and despair. 'Since there exists a certain measure of doubt ... ' -- 3. The Novel, The Dream and 'Suicide' in the Interim Period. Brides and grooms of death. Revelatory passages. To Leukippe and Kleitophon: a son -- 4. The Byzantine Revival. The act as object of variance. The meaning of the act reformulated. The act as illusion -- 5. The Revival in Context. Rhetoric and performance. Ideological tensions. The alien speech of Aristotle. The alien speech of the novel -- Appendix. Synopses of… Read More
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