caa a22 4500 386376379 CHVBK 20180307112020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632036 doi S0075426900012647 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632036 Most Glenn W. Institut für Klassische Philologie der Universität Innsbruck Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck (Austria) The Stranger's Stratagem: Self-Disclosure and Self-Sufficiency in Greek Culture [Elektronische Daten] [Glenn W. Most] The literary stock of Achilles Tatius has been increasing steadily in value since 1964, when an article about his romance Leucippe and Cleitophon in an encyclopedia of world literature began, ‘Das Werk weist alle Mängel seines Genres samt einigen zusätzlichen eigenen auf.' To be sure, Leucippe and Cleitophon remains among the last and probably least read of the Greek romances; yet in the last decades critics have begun to draw attention to original and effective aspects of its composition. As is usually the case, this revaluation has been accompanied not so much by the discovery of new virtues which had previously been neglected, but rather by the redescription as virtues of what had always counted as vices. Thus Cleitophon's lack of heroism can now be welcomed as comic realism, the implausibly melodramatic twists of the plot praised as selfconsciously theatrical ironies, and the baroque frigidity of the style counted as loony metaphysical wit or as Brechtian Entfremdung seffekt. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 114-133 0075-4269 109<114 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Most Glenn W. Institut für Klassische Philologie der Universität Innsbruck Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck (Austria) NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 114-133 0075-4269 109<114 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge