Reading Fiction with Lucian

Reading Fiction with Lucian
Author: Karen ní Mheallaigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107079330
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A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.


Reading Fiction with Lucian
Language: en
Pages: 319

Reading Fiction with Lucian

Authors: Karen ní Mheallaigh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.
Reading Fiction with Lucian: Introduction: 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 lector in fabula from The Incredible Things Beyond Thule to The Name of the Rose; 5. Beyond Thule: adventures at the edge of the text; 6. Lucian's True Stories: travels in hyperreality; 7. Conclusion: fiction and the wonder-culture of the Roman Empire
Language: en
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Reading Fiction with Lucian: Introduction: 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 lector in fabula from The Incredible Things Beyond Thule to The Name of the Rose; 5. Beyond Thule: adventures at the edge of the text; 6. Lucian's True Stories: travels in hyperreality; 7. Conclusion: fiction and the wonder-culture of the Roman Empire

Authors: Karen Ni' Mheallaigh
Categories: Greek fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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"This book invites you to read the postclassical literary culture of the imperial period through Lucian as through a prism, for much of what I have to say about
Culture and Society in Lucian
Language: en
Pages: 224

Culture and Society in Lucian

Authors: C. P. Jones
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher:

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The works of the second-century satirist Lucian--of which about seventy survive--have had a marked influence on western literature since the Renaissance. Transl
Lucian's a true story
Language: en
Pages: 204

Lucian's a true story

Authors: Lucian (of Samosata.)
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Edgar Evan Hayes

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The aim of this book is to make Lucian's A True Story accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to p
Lucian's Science Fiction Novel True Histories: Interpretation and Commentary
Language: en
Pages: 270

Lucian's Science Fiction Novel True Histories: Interpretation and Commentary

Authors: Georgiadou
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian's Verae Historiae ("True Histories"), a fantastic journey narrative considered the earliest surviving example