Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality

摘要: This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists day, bringing bear on his works whole set reading strategies. It argues that aesthetic cultural issues faced, in world mimesis replication, were akin those found postmodern contexts: ubiquity fake, erasure origins, focus freakish weird at expense traditional. In addition exploring texture Lucian's own writing, Dr ni Mheallaigh uses focal point through which examine other texts period, including Antonius Diogenes' The Incredible Things Beyond Thule, Dictys' Journal Trojan War Ptolemy Chennus' Novel History, reveals importance fiction's engagement with its contemporary culture entertainment wonder.