Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry. - TRINACTY, C. V.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry? is primarily a study of the tragedies of the Latin author Seneca the Younger (4BCE-65CE), although the first chapter also reads some of his moral-philosophical Epistles. It argues that Seneca?s tragic poetics depend on a system of intertextual references to the works of the Augustan poets who were considered canonical by Seneca?s lifetime - in particular, Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. (?) Over four chapters, the book demonstrates that the characters, plots, tragic universes, and metapoetic programs of Seneca?s dramas are constructed and developed through quotations from, allusions to, and rewordings - or ?rebrandings?- of key moments in the Augustan poetic canon. Thus Senecan characters appear to be aware of, and to intervene consciously in, the process of their own literary construction. His Medea seeks to surpass the evils she is already famous for, and famously proclaims nunc Medea sum (?), meaning both that she has recovered from the madness of love that ...
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2014Uitgever: Oxford University Press272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199356564ISBN-13: 9780199356560Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2014. VI,266p. Hardback with dust wrps. [New] [Auteur: TRINACTY, C. V.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry.]
