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Readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel [Review], Lawrence Kim
Readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel [Review], Lawrence Kim
Lawrence Kim
Are there still new and worthwhile things to be said about the ancient novel? There has certainly been an explosion in publications; the volume under review is the twelfth Ancient Narrative Supplement to appear since 2002, and more are on the way, as the multi-volume proceedings of the fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel begin publication in 2011. The eighteen articles reviewed here were originally delivered at a smaller conference in 2007 at Rethymno, and it was the organizers’ hope that the contributors would “tease out…new perspectives” on the topic of “readers and writers” by focusing on those “ …
Roman Housing [Review], Timothy O'Sullivan
Roman Housing [Review], Timothy O'Sullivan
Timothy O'Sullivan
Despite the reawakened interest in the study of Roman domestic space, there has been no general introduction to the topic since Alexander McKay's Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World 25 years ago. Recent monographs on the topic, though exemplary, have been limited in scope by region (Wallace-Hadrill's Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum) or housing type (Mielsch's Die römische Villa), and almost always exhibit a bias (understandable, given the archaeological record) towards upper-class housing. Simon Ellis' ambitious new book, based on over twenty years of research, is an attempt to fill in these gaps; indeed, the work …
Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola
Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola
Irune Gabiola
This review article covers two new volumes of scholarship dedicated to the comparative study of the Americas: Patrick Imbert's Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines (Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004) and the edited volume by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz, Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004). The latter volume is the revised and updated book form version of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002): ). These books represent a new wave of innovative …