PETRONIUS & THE ANATOMY OF FIC (Adobe Reader) ebook download Victoria Rimell

Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This innovative reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.

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Title of ebook: Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
ISBN: 9780511030505
parent-ISBN: 9780521815864
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1735 kb
Published: 11-1998
Released online for download: 11-27-1998
Author of eBook: Rimell, Victoria

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