Verlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing, London
;
Bloomsbury Academic
"Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or 'chronological deviation'), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an established literary canon. Given the tremendous pressure...
mehr
"Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or 'chronological deviation'), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an established literary canon. Given the tremendous pressure on poets to render familiar stories in unfamiliar and novel ways, how did he achieve this?"-- Introduction: Notum iter ad Thebas Prisca Nomina An Audience for the Thebaid Suspense, Anticipation, and Surprise Epic and Drama Chapter 1: Beginning with the End They call me Jocasta The Thebaid's Prologue Chapter 2: Portentous Beginnings Argos and the Seeds of War The Wedding Portents The Necklace of Harmonia Argia's Unease Amphiaraus and the Flight of Birds The Bacchant and the Necromancy Chapter 3: Hypsipyle and the Army at NemeaHypsipyle's Lemnian NarrativeThe Death and Funeral of OpheltesFuneral Consolations Chapter 4: Jocasta Tisiphone's Fears Jocasta and Polynices Jocasta and Eteocles Chronology and Suspense Strategies of Elision Jocasta's Hope and Death Chapter 5: Iam Pater Est The Curse Anticipation Outcome Chapter 6: Portentous Ends Amphiaraus Tydeus Hippomedon Parthenopaeus Capaneus Adrastus Menoeceus Chapter 7: Hic imperat, ille minatur The Anonymous Critic Polynices EteoclesChapter 8: Concluding the Thebaid The Idalian Doves The Edict of Creon The Choices of Oryntus Ubi incluta fama Antigone? The Twin Flames Choosing Theseus Fidissime Phegeus Bibliography Index.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing, London
;
Bloomsbury Academic
"Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or 'chronological deviation'), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an established literary canon. Given the tremendous pressure...
mehr
"Applying the latest narratological theory and focusing on the use of anachrony (or 'chronological deviation'), this book explores how Statius competes – successfully – for a place within an established literary canon. Given the tremendous pressure on poets to render familiar stories in unfamiliar and novel ways, how did he achieve this?"-- Introduction: Notum iter ad Thebas Prisca Nomina An Audience for the Thebaid Suspense, Anticipation, and Surprise Epic and Drama Chapter 1: Beginning with the End They call me Jocasta The Thebaid's Prologue Chapter 2: Portentous Beginnings Argos and the Seeds of War The Wedding Portents The Necklace of Harmonia Argia's Unease Amphiaraus and the Flight of Birds The Bacchant and the Necromancy Chapter 3: Hypsipyle and the Army at NemeaHypsipyle's Lemnian NarrativeThe Death and Funeral of OpheltesFuneral Consolations Chapter 4: Jocasta Tisiphone's Fears Jocasta and Polynices Jocasta and Eteocles Chronology and Suspense Strategies of Elision Jocasta's Hope and Death Chapter 5: Iam Pater Est The Curse Anticipation Outcome Chapter 6: Portentous Ends Amphiaraus Tydeus Hippomedon Parthenopaeus Capaneus Adrastus Menoeceus Chapter 7: Hic imperat, ille minatur The Anonymous Critic Polynices EteoclesChapter 8: Concluding the Thebaid The Idalian Doves The Edict of Creon The Choices of Oryntus Ubi incluta fama Antigone? The Twin Flames Choosing Theseus Fidissime Phegeus Bibliography Index.