Brill Academic Pub, Date: 1996. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Rubbing to jacket. . 1996. Brill Academic Pub ISBN 9004096302 9789004096301 [US]

Brill, Leiden (...), 1996. X,876p. Original grey gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Dust wrps a little bit wrinkled. Else fine. ?It is inevitable that (?) some readers may find some sections ?better? than others, but it should be stressed that all the chapters of this book have an important contribution to make, for they (almost always) are effectively structured, describe reliably what we currently know about a topic, highlight issues open to question, and offer a useful overall assessment of the subject in the form of either an interpretative essay of a concluding section. Especially welcome are the chapters on the ?Nachleben? of the Greek novel in France, Britain, Spain, and Portugal, and the maps at the end of the volume. (?) One of the most problematic issues related to the study of the ancient novel is the terminology used for it; a discussion, therefore, of the labels for the genre as a whole appropriately forms the subject of the first article in the volume. This is admirably done by Niklas Holzberg (?). Graham Anderson?s ?Popular and Sophisticated in the Ancient Novel? and Heinrich Kuch?s ?A Study on the Margin of the Ancient Novel: ?Barbarians? and Others? are two concise and forcefully argues papers which will certainly inspire other scholars to embark on a more thorough analysis of these important topics. (?) Characterisation is the theme of Allain Billault?s promising article (?). According to Billault, the heroes are not always alone on centre-stage in the ...

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ISBN10: 9004096302, ISBN13: 9789004096301, [publisher: E. J. Brill Leiden] Hardcover Gebraucht - Gut ausgesondertes Bibliotheksexemplar mit den üblichen Signaturen 876 pp. Deutsch
[Darmstadt, Germany] [Publication Year: 1996]