Philosophy and the Ancient Novel
Author | : Marília Futre Pinheiro |
Publisher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789491431937 |
ISBN-13 | : 9491431935 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Download or read book Philosophy and the Ancient Novel written by Marília Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato’s dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.