Reading fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 4198
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107437784
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial monograph (143K words) offers a substantial new interpretation of Lucian and his literary-cultural milieu. It represents almost 10 years of mature reflection on a topic first approached in my PhD thesis (2005), but there is almost no resemblance between the two projects, the monograph representing a substantial development of the thesis in scope, depth and complexity. It crosses traditional boundaries that separate Lucian?s fiction from the Graeco-Roman novels, and proffers Lucian?s work as literary theory in practice and a lens illuminating its contemporary literary and intellectual thought-world, revealing also that world?s affinities with certain aspects of postmodern culture.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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