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"Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first novel of the western tradition, has always sparked controversy. 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. Victoria Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on a 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."--Jacket.
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Ancient Rhetoric, Fiction, History, History and criticism, In literature, Latin Satire, Narration (Rhetoric), Technique, Petronius arbiter, Satire, latin, Fiction, technique, Rome, in literaturePeople
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
August 1, 2008, Cambridge University Press
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2005, Cambridge University Press
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2002, Cambridge University Press
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2002, Cambridge University Press
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2002, Cambridge University Press
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"We begin reading the Satyricon in medias res."
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