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...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina Řečtina, starověká (do 1453) |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007
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| Vydání: | First published |
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
| Příbuzné jednotky: | Tištěná verze::
Theocritus and the invention of fiction |
Obsah:
- Introduction: in the realms of the unreal
- The pleasures of the imaginary
- The presence of the fictional world
- Becoming bucolic
- From fiction to metafiction
- Conclusion: the future of a fiction