Reading Fiction With Lucian - Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality

A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.

List 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.

About the author

Karen ní Mheallaigh is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the postclassical literary cultures of the Hellenistic and Romano-Greek worlds, especially ancient fiction.

Summary

This is a book for readers who love fiction, puzzles, and the world of the imagination. Using as its focal point the magical and monstrous fictions of the Greek writer Lucian of Samosata, the book explores the nature of ancient fiction and its relationship with the contemporary culture of wonder.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Ni Mheallaigh, Karen (University of Exeter) Ni Mheallaigh, Karen ní Mheallaigh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107437784
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43778-4
• No. of pages: 317
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory