Sexual Symmetry : Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres.
""In the Greek romances, "" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2014.
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| Edice: | Princeton legacy library.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zvtfb |
| Shrnutí: | ""In the Greek romances, "" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male."" Exploring how erotic love is represented in ancient amatory literature, Konstan points to the symmetry in the passion of the hero and heroine as a unique feature of the Greek novel: they fall mutually in love, they are of approximately the same age and social class, and their reciprocal attachment ends in marriage. He shows. |
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| Popis jednotky: | Cover; Contents. |
| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (285 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781400863518 1400863511 |