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Allusion and Allegory : Studies in the ›Ciris‹ / Boris Kayachev.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 346Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (IX, 236 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110446814
  • 9783110447125
  • 9783110447767
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 871.01 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6955.C5 K39 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The proem (lines 1‒100) -- 2. Beginning from the beginning (lines 101‒205) -- 3. The night episode (lines 206‒348) -- 4. Heroic deeds (lines 349‒385) -- 5. An epic voyage (lines 386‒477) -- 6. The metamorphosis (lines 478‒541) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited
Dissertation note: Diss. University of Leeds 2013. Summary: The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. 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.
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Diss. University of Leeds 2013.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The proem (lines 1‒100) -- 2. Beginning from the beginning (lines 101‒205) -- 3. The night episode (lines 206‒348) -- 4. Heroic deeds (lines 349‒385) -- 5. An epic voyage (lines 386‒477) -- 6. The metamorphosis (lines 478‒541) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited

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The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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