TY - BOOK ID - 3477408 TI - Reading Fiction with Lucian : Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality PY - 2014 VL - *27 SN - 9781107079335 1107079330 9781139941594 9781107437784 1322293333 1316133796 1316121801 1316120716 1107437784 1316130525 1316132706 1316129438 1316131610 1316128342 1139941593 PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Reality in literature. KW - Greek fiction KW - History and criticism. KW - Lucian, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Lucianus KW - Lucian KW - Lucianus Samosatenus KW - Lukian KW - Lucien KW - Lucien de Samosate KW - Lucianus van Samosata KW - Loekianos, KW - Loukianos, KW - Lucià, KW - Luciano, KW - Lucianus Samosatensis KW - Lucien, KW - Lukian, KW - Lúkiános, KW - Lūkiyān al-Sumaysāṭī KW - Lūqiyān al-Samīsāṭī KW - Lūqyānūs al-Samīsāṭī KW - Samosata, Lucian of KW - Λουκιανóς, KW - לוציאן KW - לוציאן, KW - لوقيان السميساطي KW - لوقيانوس UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3477408 AB - 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. ER -