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The poetry of Pathos : studies in Virgilian epic /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941-
Otros Autores: Harrison, S. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.