Direct speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca : narrative and rhetorical functions of the characters' "varied" and "many-faceted" words /

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Direct Speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca is the first more extensive study of the use and functions of direct speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD). Its long soliloquies and scarcity of dialogues have often been pointed out as striking characteristics of Nonnus' epic style, but non...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verhelst, Berenice, 1987- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; volume 397.
Temas:
Nonnus, > of Panopolis. > Dionysiaca.
Dionysiaca (Nonnus, of Panopolis)
Direct discourse in literature.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Discours direct dans la littérature.
Rhétorique ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Imitation and Transformation: From Troy to India and from Medea to Morrheus
  • Types of Epic Speech: The Battle Exhortation
  • Speeches within Speeches
  • The Rhetoric of Deception: Persuasive Strategies
  • Ecphrastic Ethopoeae and the Perspective of the Text-Internal Observer
  • Rhetoric of Seduction and Failure of Communication in the Beroe Episode
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.

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