Aurores Et Crépuscules Dans La Thébaïde de Stace

By Melissande Tomcik

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Ce livre propose une tude intertextuelle des descriptions d'aurores et de cr puscules dans la Th ba de de Stace. Les images po tiques de l'Aurore aux doigts de rose ou du char solaire plongeant dans l'Oc an cachent un travail minutieux sur la tradition litt raire ant rieure. Les remarquables aurores et cr puscules de la Th ba de illustrent parfaitement la fa on dont les caract ristiques traditionnelles du motif peuvent tre d tourn es pour transmettre un nouveau message. Chaque chapitre de cet ouvrage examine en d tail un des aspects li aux aurores et aux cr puscules: expressions formulaires, r le structurant, fonction lumineuse et temporelle, potentiel m taphorique.

This book offers an intertextual study of dawn and dusk descriptions in Statius' Thebaid. Poetic images such as rosy-fingered Dawn and the fiery chariot of the Sun sinking into the Ocean are the result of learned work on the previous literary tradition. The striking dawn and dusk descriptions in the Thebaid offer a perfect illustration of the way in which the traditional characteristics of the motif can be remodelled to produce new meaning. Each chapter in this monograph examines one of the aspects associated with dawns and dusks: formulaic diction, structuring role, relation to time and light, allegory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004537139
• ISBN13: 9789004537132
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"