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Poetic Memory: Allusion in the Poetry of Callimachus and the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava): 258
Author(s): Heather van Tress (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 238 pages
- ISBN-10: 900414157X
- ISBN-13: 9789004141575
Book Description
This book explores Callimachus’ allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re-)examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia’s and Metamorphoses’ prologues, extensive examinations of allusive techniques within selections of these works, the poets’ use of “signposting” and “authorization” techniques, and the relationship between allusion and genre.
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Review
“[…] je tiens à saluer […] la démarche comparatiste d’Heather Van Tress qui s’intéresse parallèlement à l’oeuvre de Calli-maque et à celle d’Ovide en revenant précisément aux textes mêmes et à leurs sources respectives, avec un grand souci de clarté, fort pédagogique, tant dans ses résumés systématiques des divers passages expliqués que dans l’exposé de sa méthode.” Florence Klein in Revue de philologie, 2008
About the Author
Heather L. van Tress, Ph.D. (2004) in Classical Languages, Radboud University Nijmegen, has taught Latin, Greek, and Rhetoric in the United States as well as Greek at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her fields of interest include Hellenistic and Augustan poetry and allusion.
