The Conflicting Poetics of Antiquity in De Quincey’s Autobiographical Works: Orestes, Oedipus and the Expression of Trauma
Thomas De Quincey was a distinguished classicist who appropriated the Greek antique heritage in his works, both formally and thematically. Some of his texts are informed by rhetorical and oratorical models, as had often been the case for didactic essays from the early 17th century onwards in Britain...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/6786 |