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Egger, Brigitte Maria.

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Women in the Greek novel: Constructing the feminine.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women in the Greek novel: Constructing the feminine./
Author:	Egger, Brigitte Maria.
Description:	410 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03, Section: A, page: 0841.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Classical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9022306

Women in the Greek novel: Constructing the feminine.
Egger, Brigitte Maria.

Women in the Greek novel: Constructing the feminine. - 410 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03, Section: A, page: 0841.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 1990.

This study is a contribution to the issue of a possible female audience of the five extant ancient Greek novels. This audience is approached via the internal evidence of a female reading inscribed in the texts of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus and Heliodorus. The generic construction of femininity is analyzed from narratological, social and ideological angles, with a view to tracing female interest implied in textual features which direct reader sympathy and invite identification. In each of the examined perspectives, the fantasy of the female is shown to be dialectical, powerful on the one hand, severely limited on the other. This concept is termed 'contained centrality.'Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017779
Literature, Classical.

Women in the Greek novel: Constructing the feminine.
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520 $a This study is a contribution to the issue of a possible female audience of the five extant ancient Greek novels. This audience is approached via the internal evidence of a female reading inscribed in the texts of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus and Heliodorus. The generic construction of femininity is analyzed from narratological, social and ideological angles, with a view to tracing female interest implied in textual features which direct reader sympathy and invite identification. In each of the examined perspectives, the fantasy of the female is shown to be dialectical, powerful on the one hand, severely limited on the other. This concept is termed 'contained centrality.'
520 $a Chapter I reviews the history of the idea that the Greek romances had a female readership and discusses ancient testimony of romance reading as well as modern tools of text-centered audience-oriented criticism appropriate to ancient prose fiction. Chapters II-IV detail narrative roles of fictional women (protagonist, antagonist, confidante, mother) and their ways of driving the plots, while being strictly confined to few circumscribed functions; analyze basic female types and their definitions of sexuality, race and class (the Greek and the foreign woman, slave, and old (er) woman); and compare differing strategies of gender within the generic constructs of ideal and threatening femininity and masculinity.
520 $a Chapters V and VI examine aspects of women's social realms and emotional experiences as portrayed in the texts, and establish characteristic concentrations and exclusions. While female characters occupy the action-related, emotional and erotic center of the stories, they are practically disabled. Their erotic control and emotional influence (viewed as positive if passive, negative if active) is emphasized, but their social status reflects archaizing restrictions no longer in use at the time in which the novels were actually read in Graeco-Roman Egypt.
520 $a An appendix points out similarities of the Greek romances' construction of the feminine and patterns of wish-fulfillment to that of modern popular romances, and suggests directions towards an essay in the 'aesthetics of reception' of the Greek novels.
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