Writing Biography in Greece and Rome
Narrative Technique and Fictionalization
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Publication
2016 - Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Word Count
88,500 words, Guess
Page Count
354 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101107129125
- ISBN-139781107129122
- Library of Congress Control Number2016004905
- OCLC Control Number944087480
- Better World Books9781107129122
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28593313M
Classifications
- LCCPA3043.W75 2016
- LCCPA3043 .W75 2016
Description
"Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts"--
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