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Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Theocritus. --- Poésie pastorale grecque

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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 how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fresh reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between author and fictional creation in the poem and its importance for the later pastoral tradition. Close readings of Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax and the Lament for Bion are supplemented with parallels from modern contemporary fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa.

Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Theocritus --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Pastoral poetry [Greek ] --- Pastorale poëzie [Griekse ] --- Poésie pastorale [Grecque ] --- Country life --- Adonis (Greek deity) --- Pastoral poetry, Greek. --- Lost literature --- Vie rurale --- Adonis (Divinité grecque) --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Oeuvres perdues (Littérature) --- Poetry --- Poetry. --- Poésie --- -Adonis (Greek deity) --- -Poetry --- -Lost literature --- -Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Greek pastoral poetry --- Greek poetry --- Literature --- Rural life --- Manners and customs --- History and criticism --- Adonis (Divinité grecque) --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Oeuvres perdues (Littérature) --- Poésie --- Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Greece --- Country life - - Poetry - Greece --- -Adonis (Greek deity) - Poetry --- Lost literature - - Greece

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This volume comprises articles by an international team of twenty-three scholars. The contributions focus on the historical genesis, stylistic and narrative features and evolution of pastoral, both as genre and mode, from Theocritus to the Byzantine period. Special attention has been paid to the idea of the 'invention of a fictionalized tradition', and to pastoral’s thematic and formal relationship with other literary genres. In their totality, the contributions, as well as offering a comprehensive overview of the more or less familiar issues and ideas discussed in connection with pastoral, point to new emphases, trends and insights in current scholarly work in this area. The volume is addressed to a wide range of students and scholars in classics, but much in it will also be of interest to those working in the fields of comparative and modern literatures.

Thematology --- Classical literature --- Pastoral poetry, Classical --- Littérature pastorale grecque --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Littérature pastorale latine --- Poésie pastorale classique --- History and criticism. --- Classical pastoral poetry --- Classical poetry --- History and criticism --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Pastoral poetry, Classical. --- Pastoral poetry, Classical - History and criticism.

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Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- City and town life --- Country life --- Pastoral poetry, Greek. --- Poetry. --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Greek pastoral poetry --- Greek poetry --- Poetry --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Mediterranean Region --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- City and town life - Poetry. --- Country life - Poetry