| Description |
1 online resource |
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Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; volume 31 |
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Amsterdam studies in classical philology ; v. 31.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Preface; Tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Tense in the Aeneid; 2. Approach and Outline of This Book; Chapter 2. Latin Tenses in Narrative Texts; 1. Temporal Relation between Narrator and State of Affairs; 2. Narrative Temporal Progression; 3. Text Structure and Discourse Modes; 3.1. Narrative Mode; 3.2. Description Mode; 3.3. Report Mode; 3.4. Information Mode; 3.5. Conclusion on Discourse Modes; 4. The Sequence as a Unit, Methods of Analysis; 5. Conclusions; Chapter 3. Praesens; 1. Semantic Value of the Present Tense; 2. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative |
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3. Description Mode3.1. Pseudo-simultaneous Description; 3.2. Ambiguous Descriptions; 4. Report Mode; 4.1. Report from a Base in the Time of Narration; 4.2. Report from a Base in Reference Time; 5. Information Mode; 5.1. Information from a Base in the Time of Narration; 5.2. Information Presented from a Base in Reference Time; 5.3. The Present Tense in Similes; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 4. Perfectum; 1. Semantic Value of the Perfect Tense; 2. Narrative Mode; 2.1. Retrospective Narrative; 2.2. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative; 3. (Pseudo-)simultaneous Description; 4. Report Mode |
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4.1. Report from a Base in the Time of Narration4.2. Report from a Base in Reference Time; 5. Information Mode; 5.1. Information from a Base in the Time of Narration; 5.2. Information from a Base in Reference Time; 5.3. The Perfect Tense in Similes; 6. Conclusion; 7. A Perfect Tense for Perfect Beings?; Chapter 5. Imperfectum; 1. Semantic Value of the Imperfect Tense; 2. Narrative Mode; 2.1. Retrospective Narrative; 2.2. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative; 3. Description Mode; 3.1. Retrospective Description; 3.2. Pseudo-simultaneous Description; 4. Information Mode |
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4.1. Information from a Base in the Time of Narration4.2. Information from a Base in Reference Time; 4.3. The Imperfect Tense in Similes; 5. The Imperfect Subjunctive for Counterfactuals; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 6. Plusquamperfectum; 1. Semantic Value of the Pluperfect Tense; 2. Narrative Mode; 2.1. Retrospective Narrative; 2.2. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative; 3. Description Mode; 4. Information Mode; 5. The Pluperfect Subjunctive; 6. Conclusion; Chapter 7. Future Tenses; 1. Base in Time of Narration: Narratorial Announcements and Hopes |
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2. Base in Time of a Character's Narration: Great Expectations and Prophecies3. Base in Reference Time: Displaced Immediacy; 4. Conclusion; Chapter 8. Historical Infinitive; 1. Semantic Value of the Historical Infinitive; 1.1. The Use of the Historical Infinitive in the Aeneid; 2. Retrospective Narrative; 3. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative; 4. Pseudo-simultaneous Description; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 9. Tenses in the Narrative Style and Structure of the Aeneid; 1. Narrative Mode; 1.1. Pseudo-simultaneous Narrative; 1.2. Retrospective Narrative; 2. Description Mode |
| Summary |
The narrative style of the Aeneid suggests immediacy and involves the reader, while at the same time both narrator and reader know what the outcomes of the story will be. In 'Tenses in Vergil's Aeneid: Narrative Style and Structure', Suzanne Adema investigates the role of the Latin tenses in this presentational style. Adema presents a framework to analyze and describe the use of tenses in Latin narrative texts from a linguistic and narratological point of view. The framework concerns the temporal relations between a narrator and the states of affairs in his story on the sentence level, discourse modes on the global text level and narrative progression on the level of narrative and descriptive sequences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Virgil. Aeneis.
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| SUBJECT |
Aeneis (Virgil) fast |
| Subject |
Latin language -- Tense
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Latin language -- Tense
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018052251 |
| ISBN |
9789004383258 |
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9004383255 |
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