Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Greek Novel 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190880781, 0190880783, 9780199742653, 0199742650

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• ISBN-10: 0190880783
• ISBN-13: 9780190880781
• Author: Tim Whitmarsh

This book is thus not a conventional account of the origins of the Greek novel: it is not an attempt to pinpoint the moment of invention, and to trace its subsequent development in a straight line. Rather, it makes a virtue of the murkiness, or “dirtiness,” of the origins of the novel: there is no single point of creation, no pure tradition, only transgression and transformation. The novel thus emerges as an outlier within the Greek literary corpus: a form of literature written in Greek, but not always committing to Greek cultural identity. Dirty Love focuses particularly on the relationship between Persian, Egyptian, Jewish and Greek literature, and explores such texts as Ctesias’ Persica, Joseph and Aseneth, the Alexander Romance, and the tale of Ninus and Semiramis. It will appeal not only to those interested in Greek literary history, but also to readers of near eastern and biblical literature.

Table contents:

First Movement: Hellenism and Hybridity

Second Movement: Persians

Third Movement: Jews

Fourth Movement: Egyptians

Fifth Movement: How Greek Is the Greek Romance?

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