| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen Harrison -- The Virgilian paradox : an epic of drama and pathos -- Anatomy of a style : enallage and the new sublime -- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics : once again -- The strategy of contradiction : on the dramatic form of the Aeneid -- Defensor Vergilii : Richard Heinze on Virgil's epic technique -- Towards a new exegesis of Virgil : reconsiderations and proposals -- The meeting of stylistics and textual criticism -- Proems in the middle |
| Summary |
A collection of essays on Virgil's Aeneid by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be debased or exhausted. - ;This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a co |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Virgil. Aeneis.
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Virgil. Georgica.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, S. J.
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| ISBN |
019153689X (electronic bk.) |
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0191713260 |
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9780191536892 (electronic bk.) |
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9780191713262 |
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(alk. paper) |
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(alk. paper) |
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