Title Theocritus and the invention of fiction / Mark Payne.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-180) and index.
Contents	Introduction: in the realms of the unreal -- The pleasures of the imaginary -- The presence of the fictional world -- Becoming bucolic -- From fiction to metafiction -- Conclusion: the future of a fiction.
Summary	Examines the idea of fictionality in the poems of Theocritus.
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Subject	Theocritus -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Theocritus.
	Criticism and interpretation.
	Pastoral poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
	Pastoral poetry, Greek.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Payne, Mark. Theocritus and the invention of fiction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521865777 0521865778 (DLC) 2007297880 (OCoLC)77796016
ISBN	0511483058 (ebook)
	9780511483059 (ebook)
	0511274823 (electronic book)
	9780511274824 (electronic book)
	0511275528 (electronic book)
	9780511275524 (electronic book)
	128081571X
	9781280815713
	9780511274084
	0511274084
	0521865778 (cloth)
	9780521865777 (cloth)
	9786610815715
	6610815712