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  1. A Lucian for our times
    Contributor: Bartley, Adam Nicholas (Publisher)
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle upon Tyne

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Bartley, Adam Nicholas (Publisher)
    Language: English; French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781443814331; 1443814334
    RVK Categories: FH 65860
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Angekündigt u.d.T.: Lucian and his time
    Subjects: Geschichte
    Other subjects: Lucian / of Samosata / Criticism and interpretation; Lucian <of Samosata>; Lucianus Samosatensis (120-180)
    Scope: XII, 209 S., 22 cm
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    Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. franz.

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Reading fiction with Lucian
    fakes, freaks and hyperreality
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading strategies. It argues that the aesthetic and cultural... more

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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139941594
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    RVK Categories: FH 65860
    Series: Greek culture in the Roman world
    Subjects: Reality in literature; Greek fiction / History and criticism; Fiktion
    Other subjects: Lucian / of Samosata / Criticism and interpretation; Lucianus Samosatensis (120-180)
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)
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    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 metamorphoses of reader from the Incredible things Beyond thule to the Name of the rose -- 5. Beyond Thule: adventures at the edge of the text -- 6. True Stories: travels in hyperreality -- 7. Conclusion: fiction and the wonder-culture of the Roman Empire

  3. A Lucian for our times
    Contributor: Bartley, Adam Nicholas (Publisher)
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle upon Tyne

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Bartley, Adam Nicholas (Publisher)
    Language: English; French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781443814331; 1443814334
    RVK Categories: FH 65860
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Angekündigt u.d.T.: Lucian and his time
    Subjects: Geschichte
    Other subjects: Lucian / of Samosata / Criticism and interpretation; Lucian <of Samosata>; Lucianus Samosatensis (120-180)
    Scope: XII, 209 S., 22 cm
    Notes:

    Beitr. teilw. engl., teilw. franz.

    Includes bibliographical references and index