Trends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes Ser.: ›res Vera, Res Ficta‹: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography by Claire Rachel Jackson (2023, Hardcover)

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Rather than defining epistolary fiction as a literary genre in opposition to 'genuine’ letters or reducing it down to fixed rhetorical features, it argues that fiction is an inherent and fluid property of letters which ancient writers recognised and exploited.

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PublisherDE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter

ISBN-103111306992

ISBN-139783111306995

eBay Product ID (ePID)3061949182

Product Key Features

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Name&Rsaquo;Res Vera, Res Ficta&Lsaquo;: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography

SubjectAncient / General, Ancient & Classical

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

AuthorClaire Rachel Jackson

SeriesTrends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number149

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal809.3

SynopsisLetters are famously easy to recognise, notoriously hard to define. Both real and fictitious letters can look identical to the point that there are no formal criteria which can distinguish one from the other. This has long been a point of anxiety in scholarship which has considered the value of an ancient letter to be determined by its authenticity, necessitating a strict binary opposition of genuine as opposed to fake letters. This volume challenges this dichotomy directly. Rather than defining epistolary fiction as a literary genre in opposition to 'genuine' letters or reducing it down to fixed rhetorical features, it argues that fiction is an inherent and fluid property of letters which ancient writers recognised and exploited. This volume contributes to wider scholarship on ancient fiction by demonstrating through the multiplicity of genres, contexts, and time periods discussed how complex and multifaceted ancient awareness of fictionality was. As such, this volume shows that letters are uniquely well-placed to unsettle disciplinary boundaries of fact and fiction, authentic and spurious, and that this allows for a deeper understanding of how ancient writers conceptualised and manipulated the fictional potential of letters.

LC Classification NumberPN3448.E6