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Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres
David Konstan
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Description for Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606033
SKU
V9780691606033
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Reviews for Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres
Modern readers of the ancient novels ... can consider themselves fortunate, for the pleasure they take in those novels will be doubled by David Konstan's Sexual Symmetry, which shows that the love relationship a their centers consists of a pairing of equal partners utterly unique in ancient literary constructions of eros and foreign to most modern ones as well.
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