The transvestite Achilles : gender and genre in Statius' Achilleid /

Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid, explores Achilles' mother's attempt to save her son from the Trojan War by dressing him as a girl. This first book-length study of the poem offers a detailed interpretation and explores questions of the poem's reception and of gender in an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heslin, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Statius, P. Papinius > (Publius Papinius)
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Influence.
Achilles > (Mythological character)) in literature.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Cross-dressers in literature.
Travestis dans la littérature.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Cross-dressers in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening nights at the opera 1641-1744
  • The design of the Achilleid
  • Womanhood, rhetoric, and performance
  • Semivir, semifer, semideus
  • Transvestism in myth and ritual
  • Rape, repetition, and romance
  • Conclusion.

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