Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - 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. They are 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 new reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between authoj 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 fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa. ISBN 9780521865777