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Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality
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Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and HyperrealityReading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality

This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading strategies. It argues that the aesthetic and cultural issues Lucian faced, in a world of mimesis and replication, were akin to those found in postmodern contexts: the ubiquity of the fake, the erasure of origins, the focus on the freakish and weird at the expense of the traditional.
 
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Tags: Lucian, ubiquity, erasure, origins, contexts, Reading, Hyperreality, Freaks, Fiction
The 39 Clues - Book 5: The Black Circle
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The 39 Clues - Book 5: The Black CircleThe 39 Clues - Book 5: The Black Circle

The Black Circle is the fifth book in The 39 Clues series and is written by Patrick Carman. This book was released on August 11, 2009. Amy and Dan Cahill, the protagonists of the series, try to follow a Lucian secret. They also encounter the infamous Madrigals.
 
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Tags: Black, series, Clues, Circle, Lucian, Clues, Black