The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹ : : Identity, Intertext and the Sublime / / Jean-Michel Hulls.
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 epic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XLV, 275 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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