Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XLV, 275 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110717990
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9783110718041
Series Statement:
Trends in classics - supplementary volumes volume 116
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Vagus exul: Polynices and the Search for the Self -- 2 Identity Politics: Exploring Tyranny in the Thebaid -- 3 Nil ego: Oedipus, Theseus and Poetic Identity -- 4 Unde iubetis ire, deae? Statius and Poetic Identity -- 5 Afterword? Per te poeta fui: Dante’s Statius and the Re-Writing of Literary History -- Bibliography -- Index Rerum et Nominum -- Index οf Sources
Content:
The aim of this project is to provide a sustained analysis of the concept of ‘self’ in Statius’ Thebaid. It is this project’s contention that the poem is profoundly interested in ideas of identity and selfhood. The poem stages itself as a metapoetic exploration of the difficulties for a belated epicist in finding a place in the literary canon; it shows the impossibility of squaring large-scale epic poetics with small-scale, finely-wrought Callimacheanism; it reflects the violent disjunction between Statius’ authorial pose as a poet without power and the extreme violence of his poetics; it opens up the intricacies of constructing original, coherent characters out of intertextual, exemplary models. The central tenet of the project is that Statius in the Thebaid stages his own 'death', but does so that his poem may live. This book is intended for an academic audience including undergraduate and graduate students as well as specialists in the field. Although the project will be of primary importance to readers of Flavian literature, it will also be of interest to those who study intertextuality and characterisation in Roman literature more generally, selfhood and identity in Roman literature and culture and the reception of Roman literature
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110717785
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hulls, Jean-Michel The search for the self in Statius' Thebaid Berlin : De Gruyter, 2021 ISBN 9783110717785
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110717786
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Statius, Publius Papinius 45-96 Thebais
;
Selbst
;
Identität
DOI:
10.1515/9783110717990
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717990
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110717990
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