Dreams and suicides : the Greek novel from antiquity to the Byzantine Empire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	MacAlister, Suzanne, 1942-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, 1996 London ; New York : 1996 London ; New York, NY : 1996 New York : 1996 London ; New York : 1996
Subjects:	Andrae, A Byzantine fiction > History and criticism Greek fiction > History and criticism Literature and society > Greece Byzantine fiction Greek fiction Literature and society Greece Criticism, interpretation, etc

Table of 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 novels highlighting dreams and suicides. Chariton's Chaireas and Kallirhoe. Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka. Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe. Heliodoros' Aithiopika. Makrembolites' Hsymine and Hysminias. Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles
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 novels highlighting dreams and suicides. Chariton's Chaireas and Kallirhoe. Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka. Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe. Heliodoros' Aithiopika. Makrembolites' Hsymine and Hysminias. Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles. Eugenianos' Drosilla and Charikles
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 novels highlighting dreams and suicides. Chariton's Chaireas and Kallirhoe. Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka. Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe. Heliodoros' Aithiopika. Makrembolites' Hsymine and Hysminias. Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles. Eugenianos' Drosilla and Charikles. Index of passages from early and Byzantine novels.
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 novels highlighting dreams and suicides. Chariton's Chaireas and Kallirhoe. Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka. Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe. Heliodoros' Aithiopika. Makrembolites' Hsymine and Hysminias. Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles.
Index of passages from early and Byzantine novels
Eugenianos' Drosilla and Charikles Index of passages from early and Byzantine novels.

Dreams and suicides : the Greek novel from antiquity to the Byzantine Empire /

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