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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction Book

Metaphors of the body form an important feature of Petronius' Satyricon. This book argues that, on the level of imagery, the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as an episodic jumble, despite its fragmentation. The work is presented as disturbing as well as comic, intricately structured as well as chaotic, and it is argued that its imagery constantly mirrors these apparent paradoxes. For the first time corporeality is explored as a metaphor rather than just as an index of the 'low' genre of the novel.Read More

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  • 052181586X
  • 9780521815864
  • Victoria Rimell
  • 28 November 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 250
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