Song exchange in Roman pastoral /
Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. By examining in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic, and metrical features, the present book focuses on how politics, panegyrics, elegy, heroic, and didactic poetry f...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2011.
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Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. By examining in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic, and metrical features, the present book focuses on how politics, panegyrics, elegy, heroic, and didactic poetry function as guest genres within the pastoral host genre, starting from Vergil and continuing with Calpurnius Siculus, the Einsiedeln Eclogues and Nemesianus. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368) and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110227079 311022707X 1283165147 9781283165143 |
ISSN: | 1868-4785 ; |