Borrowed Flames: Intertextuality in Lucan's Bellum Civile

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dc.contributor.advisorHejduk, Julia Dyson
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Cynthia
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaylor University.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-21T16:55:29Z
dc.date.available2018-05-21T16:55:29Z
dc.date.copyright2018
dc.date.issued2018-05-21
dc.description.abstractIntertextuality is far from a linear or one-directional relationship. Rather, it is a radiating and multi-faceted conversation between authors. This thesis explores Lucan’s intertextual allusions by tracing how Lucan treats and mutates the works of his literary predecessors. Lucan’s readers familiar with Virgil, Ovid, and elegy will see the foundation on which he builds his epic and the background by which his story is informed. However, his readers will also find his adaptation of these sources redirecting their reading of those same sources. More often than not the contexts in which Lucan puts his allusions problematize the sources themselves. The genius of his intertextual allusions lies in his rearrangement of echoed material, repurposing and recombining motifs, images, even verbatim echoes from Virgil, elegiac poets, and Ovid, to not only ironize his own passages and multiply layers of meaning but also to question, rebut, and problematize his sources.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/10294
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide accessen_US
dc.subjectClassics.en_US
dc.titleBorrowed Flames: Intertextuality in Lucan's Bellum Civileen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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