| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Virgil. Aeneis -- Criticism and interpretation
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Virgil. Aeneis -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Aeneis (Virgil) fast |
| Subject |
Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Epic poetry, Latin
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814271186 |
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0814271189 |
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