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“I am One”: The Fragile/Assertive Self and Thematic Unity in the Theocritean Oeuvre

Self, Stephen N.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311692392

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2011, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Classics.
Since antiquity, critical reception of Theocritus has focused on bucolic as the poet’s quintessential domain, whether in the belief that the term designates a small, separable portion of his total corpus or more generally applies to many, most, or all of his hexameter works. As a result, many of Theocritus’ non-herding poems have received, on the whole, less critical attention than the herding ones. The book-length studies of Griffiths (1979b), Burton (1995), and Hunter (1996) attempt to redress this imbalance in treatment by dividing the non-herding works into various sub-genres, such as patronage poetry, mimes, hymns, and pederastic poetry, and dealing with each in relative isolation from the rest of the corpus. While this approach may finally give less scrutinized poems their due, it results in the same kind of tunnel vision vis-à-vis the figure of the poet as bucolic-centered studies. A more unitary view of Theocritus is called for. Analysis of the Idylls as a whole from the standpoint of themes and imagery, as opposed to genre, may hold the key to that view.
Kathryn Gutzwiller, PhD (Committee Chair)
Holt Parker, PhD (Committee Member)
233 p.
Classical Studies
Theocritus; criticism; themes; fragile; assertive; self

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  • Self, S. N. (2011). “I am One”: The Fragile/Assertive Self and Thematic Unity in the Theocritean Oeuvre [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311692392

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Self, Stephen. “I am One”: The Fragile/Assertive Self and Thematic Unity in the Theocritean Oeuvre. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311692392.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Self, Stephen. "“I am One”: The Fragile/Assertive Self and Thematic Unity in the Theocritean Oeuvre." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1311692392

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