The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
P. J. Heslin
As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have emerged to explain Achilles' transvestism.
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Año:
2009
Edición:
1
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
372
ISBN 10:
0521851459
ISBN 13:
9780521851459
Archivo:
PDF, 3.96 MB
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english, 2009