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Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narrative proper, working to activate the audience's awareness of the play of meaning in the story. As the crucial elements in the evolution of a relation

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Author

Shadi Bartsch

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691042381

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25