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Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid (2023)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2023). Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid. In A. Roumpou (Ed.), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (135-160). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110770483-009

This chapter explores fire imagery in Statius’ Thebaid, its relationship to ritual and narrative articulation. Fire is often involved in Roman ritual, associated with catastrophic destruction alongside purification and release. The Thebaid’s complex... Read More about Burning up, melting down, collapsing in: Fire imagery, narrative articulation, funerals, and the incestuous poetics of Statius' Thebaid.

Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex (2023)
Journal Article
LOVATT, H. (2023). Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. Thersites, 17, 55-95. https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol17.254

This paper analyses the relationship between the figure of the Argo (ship and character) and the supernatural in the mythic fantasy of Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex. It shows how Holdstock’s re-writing of the Argonautica draws on various versions f... Read More about Resurrecting the Argo: Supernatural Re-makings in Robert Holdstock’s Merlin Codex.