UID:
almafu_9960117265002883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-12071-6
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1-316-12180-1
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1-316-13379-6
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1-316-13270-6
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1-316-13052-5
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1-107-43778-4
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1-139-94159-3
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1-316-12834-2
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1-316-13161-0
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1-316-12943-8
Series Statement:
Greek culture in the Roman world
Content:
This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading strategies. It argues that the aesthetic and cultural issues Lucian faced, in a world of mimesis and replication, were akin to those found in postmodern contexts: the ubiquity of the fake, the erasure of origins, the focus on the freakish and weird at the expense of the traditional. In addition to exploring the texture of Lucian's own writing, Dr ní Mheallaigh uses Lucian as a focal point through which to examine other fictional texts of the period, including Antonius Diogenes' The Incredible Things Beyond Thule, Dictys' Journal of the Trojan War and Ptolemy Chennus' Novel History, and reveals the importance of fiction's engagement with its contemporary culture of writing, entertainment and wonder.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Lucian's Promethean poetics: hybridity, fiction and the postmodern -- 2. Toxaris: microfiction and the Greek novel -- 3. Philopseudes: philosophy of fiction, drama of reading -- 4. Semiotic fictions: the metamorphoses of reader from the Incredible things Beyond thule to the Name of the rose -- 5. Beyond Thule: adventures at the edge of the text -- 6. True Stories: travels in hyperreality -- 7. Conclusion: fiction and the wonder-culture of the Roman Empire.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-29333-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-07933-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139941594
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