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Can I read Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction on EtoBox?
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction by Victoria Rimell is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction about?
Metaphors of the body form an important feature of Petronius' Satyricon. This book claims that the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as episodic jumble, despite its fragmentation. Presented as disturbing as well as comic, intricately structured as well as chaotic, the study asserts that the Satyricon's imagery constantly mirrors apparent paradoxes. Thus corporeality is explored as a metaphor rather than just as an index of the "low" genre of the novel.
Who reads Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Victoria Rimell
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511042614
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
