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Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War PDF

215 Pages·2007·1.789 MB·English
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by Charles McNelis| 2007| 215 pages| 1.789| English

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This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately, Statius adheres to the mythic paradigm of the mutual fratricide, but he continues to employ competing strategies that call attention to the fictive nature of any project of closure and conciliation. In the process, the poem offers a new mode of epic closure that emphasises individual means of resolution.

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Author:Charles McNelis
Publication Year:2007
ISBN:9780521867412
Pages:215
Language:English
File Size:1.789
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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