Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹Condition: NewSubtitle: Identity, Intertext and the SublimeISBN-10: 3111265862EAN: 9783111265865ISBN: 9783111265865Publisher: De GruyterFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/08/2023Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 635gAuthor: Jean-Michel HullsGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary VolumesRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹
Title: The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹
Subtitle: Identity, Intertext and the Sublime
ISBN-10: 3111265862
EAN: 9783111265865
ISBN: 9783111265865
Release Date: 05/08/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 230mm
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Search for the Self in Statius' &Rsaquo;Thebaid&Lsaquo; : Identity, Intertext and the Sublime
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Subject: Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Jean-Michel Hulls
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Trends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
