Theocritus and the invention of fiction
The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and m...
| Subtitles: | Theocritus & the Invention of Fiction |
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theocritus ca. 4 BC./3.Jh.
/ Fiction
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theocritus
Criticism and interpretation
B Pastoral poetry, Greek ; History and criticism B Pastoral poetry, Greek History and criticism B Theocritus ; Criticism and interpretation |
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| Summary: | The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fresh reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between author and fictional creation in the poem and its importance for the later pastoral tradition. Close readings of Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax and the Lament for Bion are supplemented with parallels from modern contemporary fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa Introduction: in the realms of the unreal; 1. The pleasures of the imaginary; 2. The presence of the fictional world; 3. Becoming bucolic; 4. From fiction to metafiction; Conclusion: the future of a fiction |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 183 pages), digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-48305-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511483059 |
