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  title info:
    title: Reader immersion in Latin prose and verse narrative
  name:
    name part: Graverini, Luca
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : color illustrations
  abstract: This text introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating how they encourage their readers to experience the fictional world and its inhabitants - the fictional characters - as if they were to some extent real.
  table of contents: Cover -- Reader Immersion in Latin Prose and Verse Narrative -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- List of Images -- Introduction -- 1: Towards Immersion -- 1.1. Visual Engagement -- 1.1.1. Modern Narrative -- 1.1.2. The Visual Arts, Metalepsis, and Embedded Viewer Advice -- 1.1.3. Ancient Narrative Spaces -- 1.1.4. Evidentia and Ekphrasis -- 1.2. Emotional Engagement -- 1.2.1. Metaleptic Emotions -- 1.2.2. The Rhetoric of Emotions -- 1.2.3. Emotions, Embedded Reader Advice, and Suspense -- 1.2.4. Sharing Emotions: Empathic Identification
  table of contents: 1.3. Bodily Engagement -- 1.3.1. Immersion and the Body: Modern and Ancient Views -- 1.3.2. The Five Senses -- 1.4. Intellectual Engagement -- 1.4.1. Modern Narrative -- 1.4.2. Cognitive Perspectives: Narrative Texts and their Readers -- 1.4.3. Ancient Narrative -- 1.5. Articulating Immersion -- 1.5.1. Enchantment -- 1.5.2. Vividness -- 1.5.3. Psychagogy and Transportation -- 1.5.4. Ancient Narrative and Immersion -- 2: Small Things Matter Engaging Discourse -- 2.1. Vivid Language: indignanti similis, tantillus/tantulus -- 2.2. Mirativity: ecce, cum inversum, Parataxis
  table of contents: 2.3. Emotional Syntax: Anacoluthon -- 2.4. Deixis and Prologues: Shifting and Complex Deixis -- 2.4.1. Who, When, Where, From Where: Apuleius' Prologue -- 2.4.2. Person Deixis in Prologues: Narrative and Other Genres -- 2.4.3. Performative Texts and Shifting Deictics -- 2.4.4. Complex Deixis and Metalepsis -- 2.5. Iste : Deixis, Vividness, Emotions -- 3: Reading Ekphraseis -- 3.1. Gazing at One's Own Past: Aeneas in Carthage -- 3.1.1. Viewing, Emotions, Embodiment -- 3.1.2. Interpretation, Dramatic Irony, and Cognitive Dissonance -- 3.1.3. Know Thyself: Aeneas and the Reader
  table of contents: 3.2. Not Recognizing One's Own Future: Lucius, Actaeon, Diana -- 3.2.1. Picturing -- 3.2.2. Movement -- 3.2.3. Apostrophe -- 3.2.4. Other Sensory Perceptions -- 3.2.5. Verbal Tenses -- 3.2.6. Emotions -- 3.2.7. Breaking the Spell? I: Meaning and mise en abyme -- 3.2.8. Breaking the Spell? II: Cultured Reflection -- 3.2.9. The Ekphrasis and a Mosaic -- 3.3. A Non-Immersive Ekphrasis in Petronius -- 4: The Narratology of Emotions: Embedded Reader Advice and Metalepsis -- 4.1. Aeneas' Double Audience and 'Generic Enrichment' -- 4.2. Amazement and Credulity: Metamorphoses, Werewolves, and Witches
  table of contents: 4.3. 'Don't Listen to Me': Orpheus in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- 4.4. Apuleius' Metamorphoses and the Matryoshka Effect -- 4.4.1. First Doll: Socrates and Aristomenes -- 4.4.2. Second Doll: Aristomenes and Lucius -- 4.4.3. Third Doll: Lucius and his Reader -- 4.5. Emotions, Curiosity, and Credibility: The Historia Apollonii -- 5: Mind and Heart Games Cognitive Dissonance and Empathy -- 5.1. The Theory -- 5.2. Empathy, Sympathy, and Emotional Contagion -- 5.3. Tragic Dissonances in Seneca -- 5.3.1. Vicarious Dissonance -- 5.3.2. The Dangers of Immersion -- 5.4. Adapting Tragedy: The Dilemma Speech
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Luca Graverini.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Latin prose literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Narrative poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Prose latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie narrative latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: Drama
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Latin prose literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Narrative poetry, Latin
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PA6081 .G73 2025
  classification: 878/.008
  identifier: 9780198956433
  identifier: 0198956436
  identifier: 9780198956440
  identifier: 0198956444
  identifier: 9780198956457
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250812
    record change date: 20260319210527.0
    record identifier: in00005728744
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng