Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts. Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel
Victoria Rimell (ed.)
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The Greek and Roman novels
can be seen as an important transitional moment in the trajectory from
performance to reading, from oralism to textuality, that has underpinned the
history of discourse in European consciousness since the 5th century BC. In
different and intriguing ways, they explore the contrast, tension, conflict,
competition or dialogue between modes of discourse, which frame the novel's
concern with identity and self-fashioning, as well as advertising innovation
more generally.
This volume brings together an international group of scholars interested in
ancient and modern constructions of orality and writing and how they are
reflected and manipulated in the ancient novel. The essays deal not only
with questions of genre, oral poetics and traditions, but also with how
various ways of pitting or collapsing modes of representation can become
loaded articulations of wider world-views, of cultural, literary,
epistemological anxieties and aspirations. The contributors focus in
particular on issues surrounding theatricality, gender identity, rhetorical
performance, epistolarity, monumentality and power in the ancient novel.
VICTORIA RIMELL
Introduction VII
JASON KÖNIG
Orality and Authority in Xenophon Of Ephesus 1
ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI
Omero e la Sibilla. Mimesi e oralità nella Cena Trimalchionis 23
VICTORIA RIMELL
The Inward Turn: Writing, Voice and the Imperial Author in Petronius 61
REGINE MAY
Visualising Drama, Oratory and Truthfulness in Apuleius Metamorphoses 3 86
WYTSE KEULEN
Vocis immutatio: The Apuleian Prologue and the Pleasures and
Pitfalls of Vocal Versatility 106
LUCA GRAVERINI
The Ass's Ears and the Novel's Voice. Orality and the Involvement of the
Reader in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 138
MARKO MARINČIČ
Advertising One's Own Story. Text and Speech in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe
and Clitophon 168
PATRICK ROBIANO
La voix et la main : la lettre intime dans Chéréas et Callirhoé 201
ROMAIN BRETHES
Poiein aischra kai legein aischra, est ce vraiment la même chose? Ou
la bouche souillée de Chariclée 223
OWEN HODKINSON
‘Novels in the Greek Letter': Inversions of the Written-Oral Hierarchy in
the Briefroman ‘Themistocles' 257
KATHRYN CHEW
Divine Epistemology: the Relationship between Speech and Writing in the
Aithiopika 279
STELIOS PANAYOTAKIS
Fixity and Fluidity in Apollonius of Tyre 299
List of Contributors 321
Indices 324
Index of Subjects 324
Index of Passages Cited 326
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