Plant of a Strange Vine : : ›Oratio Corrupta‹ and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy / / Robert John Sklenár.

This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 363
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 99 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Chapter One. Letter 114 and the Poetics of Decadence
  • Chapter Two. A Senecan Reading of Seneca’s Oedipus, Part I
  • Chapter Three. A Senecan Reading of Seneca’s Oedipus, Part II
  • Chapter Four. Seneca and Neronian Aesthetics
  • Bibliography
  • Subject index