Hellenistic mimetic poetry
Hellenistic mimetic poetry
Author(s): Gerson SchadeSubject(s): Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: estrangement device; mimetic hymns; urban bucolic.
Summary/Abstract: Since Callimachus’ mimetic hymns, super-realistic sceneries are common in Alexandrian poetry. This type of ‘realism’, however, only accompanies textual interplay. It may even be subordinated to it, as a new reading of Theocritus’ Adoniazusae (Idyll 15) suggests.
Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
- Issue Year: XXVII/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-15
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
