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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
Author: Mark Payne
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521124294
ISBN-10: 0521124298
Publication Date: 12/3/2009
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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