UID:
edocfu_9959245587002883
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-11-040102-9
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3-11-040112-6
Series Statement:
Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 121
Content:
When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by "expressiveness"? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil's Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in similar contexts and with the same stylistic effects. In this view, a rare word order as well as a relevant metrical and syntactical pattern appear to constitute a deviation from the norm stylistically motivated, that can highlight significant words or iconically stress the semantics of a passage. By combining the main notes on style from the Aeneid commentaries and the stylistic readings also applied to modern texts, the author, with a clear approach, systematically discusses the various structures of Latin hexameter - enjambement, synaloepha, hiatus, four-word lines, name-lines, relevant juxtapositions etc. - in terms of "effects", showing how they interact and converge in the text. This introduction to Virgil's expressiveness aims to be an effective tool for a stylistic reading of any Latin hexametric text.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Diss. University of Salerno 2013.
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Front matter --
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Thanks --
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Table of Contents --
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Preamble --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. Poetry and verse --
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Chapter 2. Poetry and rhythm: on metrical expressiveness --
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Chapter 3. Word order and meaning --
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Bibliography --
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Index Locorum --
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Index Rerum
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-040103-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-038422-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110401028
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