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.
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