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Konstan argues that allegedly ‘popular’ novels like Apollonius, King of Tyre demand the same kind of ‘active readers’ as sophisticated elite works such as the Aeneid : readers who, conditioned by the public, group-oriented nature of ancient reading, were constantly interrogating the texts, as opposed to modern “passive” readers who “surrender selves entirely to the novel’s world of illusion” (12).
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And the article that opens the volume, David Konstan’s provocative “The Active Reader and the Ancient Novel”, is very much concerned with readership.
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For instance, Richard Stoneman entertainingly sketches a (speculative) portrait of “The Author of the Alexander Romance ”, while Maaike Zimmerman (“‘Food for Thought’ for Readers of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass ”) offers a brisk discussion of ancient, medieval, and modern allegorical readings of the Golden Ass, supplemented by an illuminating appendix on a series of Renaissance woodcut illustrations. 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 “ in the novel”, in pointed contrast to past debates over the actual readers and writers of the novel (ix).Ī quick scan of the contents, however, reveals that the old concerns persist. Introduction, Table of Contents, Indices.Īre 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.