In:The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel
Edited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 244–259
Chapter 16Kidnapping in the ancient novels
Published online: 1 December 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.40.16pap
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.40.16pap
Abstract
Kidnapping is an essential component of Ancient novel
narrative because it is a major force behind the development of the plot.
Additionally, kidnapping enables the author to experiment with travelling as
a literary mechanism to signify transition (kidnapping initiates travelling
which allows for convenient transition points, and supplies closures and
openings to narrative units), but also to employ travelling as an allegory
for soul-/identitysearching, as a means to trace characterization and as a
rite of passage onto maturity.
Keywords: kidnapping, peripeteia, identity, travelling, transition, rite of passage
Article outline
- Preamble: Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Kidnapping and Peripeteia
- Kidnapping and identity formation
- Kidnapping and rites of passage
- Coda: Longus’ kidnapping-free novel
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