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Reading Voices - Five Studies in Theocritus' Narrating Techniques (Hardcover, New edition)
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Reading Voices - Five Studies in Theocritus' Narrating Techniques (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Lang Classical Studies, 21
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This book is a study of Theocritus' narrating techniques,
intertextual practices, and the relationship between them. By a
close, careful description and analysis of these features as
particularly deployed in Idylls 6, 11, 13, 24, and 15, J. Andrew
Foster provides detailed readings of these specific poems,
demonstrating how each poem's narrative structure and its
intratextual and intertextual affiliations interact to characterize
the voices and audiences expressed and imagined by the discourse.
Within these poems Theocritus especially orchestrates polyphonic
voices speaking to diverse fictional, ideal, and actual audiences
and so authorizes a range of responses to speech-in-text. His
densely allusive poems exhibit an iterative aspect and resistance
to closure that particularly encourage his readers to help compose
larger metanarratives in which such resolution can be achieved or
the particular episode can be better understood. The interplay
between the referential systems inscribed within these poems and
their rhetorical structure exemplifies how Theocritus encourages
his poetry to be incorporated into a wider literary discourse by
which that wider literary landscape is transformed. Within these
experiments in narration and reception, Theocritus exhibits an
intense engagement with the literary past and his critical present
whose receptions and authority are continually problematized. These
readings will serve as a springboard into the wider ongoing study
of the problems of poetic voice, authority, and literary innovation
within Theocritus' poetry in particular and Hellenistic poetry in
general.
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