Allusion and allegory : studies in the Ciris / Boris Kayachev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayachev, Boris, author.

Series:

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; Bd. 346.

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ciris.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 236 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110446814

3110446812

9783110447125

3110447126

9783110447767

3110447762

OCLC:

958929451

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