Reading fiction with Lucian : fakes, freaks and hyperreality /

• Main Author: Ni' Mheallaigh, Karen (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Series: Greek culture in the roman world
• Subjects: Λουκιανός ο Σαμοσατεύς, > π. 120-π. 190 > Ερμηνεία και κριτική; Πραγματικότητα στη λογοτεχνία; Ελληνική μυθοπλασία > Ιστορία και κριτική

"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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 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.