자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0017161614

International Standard Book Number  

9798382837529

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

880

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Kovalchuk, Maria Vladimirovna.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of Pennsylvania., 2024

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024

Physical Description  

171 p.

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Damon, Cynthia.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2024.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation uses situational irony to interpret problematic passages located in a subset of Theocritus' mythological poems. (I define "problematic" as having attracted modern scholarly debate that has not been sufficiently resolved.) My examination of Theocritean irony differs from the only existing monograph on the topic (Horstmann 1976) in offering more detailed analyses and in reading passages and poems that this monograph ignores. In a chapter on Idyll 24, I argue that reading the catalogue of Heracles' education against the hero's traditional later life highlights an incongruity between Heracles' training and actual deeds. This comparative reading humorously characterizes young Heracles as toiling in vain. In a chapter on Idyll 18, I argue that reading the description of Helen's tree cult against Odyssey 4, Euripides' Helen, Plato's Phaedrus, and fragments of Stesichorus reveals inconsistencies between the charmingly innocent expectations placed upon Helen's new marriage and what readers know will eventually happen to it. In a chapter on Idyll 26, I argue that reading the speaker's moralizing interjection against Euripides' Bacchae highlights an incongruity between the levels of piety embodied by the speaker of the Idyll and the various characters in the play. This incongruity characterizes the speaker's piety as uninformed by a critical reading of the Bacchae: the speaker confidently rattles off religious "truisms" without realizing that many of them are challenged in the play. Ultimately, this dissertation, which is situated at the intersection of childhood, cognitive, and religious studies, shows that, although the heroes and heroines in Theocritus are outside of the world of pastoral, they have humorous characteristics, including ignorance and naivete, in common with the shepherds of the more famous bucolic Idylls.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Classical literature.

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Literature.

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Language.

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Classical studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Greek literature

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Idylls

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Irony

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Theocritus

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Situational irony

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University of Pennsylvania Classical Studies

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12A.

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