The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece |
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| Author:
| Finkelberg, Margalit |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-815095-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $379.95AUD $477.00 |
Book Description:
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The purpose of this study is to find out how and why the `poetics of fiction' arose, its sources, and the materials from which it was created. A series of cultural choices made in archaic and classical Greece produced a clash between the traditional `poetics of truth', and the new `poetics of fiction', which derived poetry from art.
The purpose of this study is to find out how and why the `poetics of fiction' arose, its sources, and the materials from which it was created. A series of cultural choices made in archaic and classical Greece produced a clash between the traditional `poetics of truth', and the new `poetics of fiction', which derived poetry from art.