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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thalmann, William G. (1947-....)
Titre(s) : Theocritus [Texte imprimé] : space, absence, and desire / William G. Thalmann
Publication : New York (NY) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXII-232 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and indexes
"Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with
emphasis on how these poems construct space: its contours and borders along with the
people, animals and objects that fill it and the equally important role of absence.
It draws on spatial theory from anthropology and cultural geography. Each poem is
studied in itself and in its connections with other poems, so that a loose coherence
emerges among them. Spatially, the Ptolemaic empire provides a setting and reference
point for the various types of Idylls (bucolic, urban, mythological, and encomiastic
poems), in ways that help legitimate it. In all the idylls, however, space is constructed
selectively from particular perspectives, so that it reflects and shapes people's
relations with each other and humans' relations with nature. The bucolic Idylls in
particular raise questions about being in and out of place and relations between self
and other that would have been important under the conditions of mobility and intercultural
contact in the early Hellenistic period. Yet theirs is a fictional world, defined
more by its margins than by its center, and visions of fullness and presence of nature
are always distanced from the reader. Absence is constitutive of this world, just
as absence of the beloved is the precondition for the desire of bucolic characters
and prompts their singing. Their desire mirrors the desire of readers for the absent
bucolic world that the poems arouse and that keeps them reading"
Sujet(s) : Théocrite (0300?-0250? av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation
Poésie lyrique grecque -- Thèmes, motifs
Espace -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
884.01 (23e éd.) = Poésie lyrique grecque classique - Jusque vers 0499 [critique]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-19-763655-8 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47271601g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47271601
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1. Theocritean spaces I : the bucolic and urban poems ; 2. Theocritean spaces 2
: mythological and encomiastic space ; 3. The poetics of absence ; 4. On the margins
of bucolic ; 5. Conclusion
