Latin epic and didactic poetry genre, tradition and individuality /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gale, Monica (Monica R.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Swansea, Wales : Oakville, CT : Classical Press of Wales : Distributor in the United States : The David Brown Book Co., 2004.
Temas:
Epic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Poésie épique latine > Histoire et critique.
Poésie didactique latine > Histoire et critique.
Didactic poetry, Latin
Epic poetry, Latin
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction: Genre, tradition and individuality
  • PART 1: FRAMING EPICS: EPIC, DIDACTIC AND RELATED GENRES
  • 1. Getting the measure of heroes: The dactylic hexameter and its detractors
  • 2. Politian's Ambra and reading epic didactically
  • 3. The story of us: A narratological analysis of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
  • 4. From didactic to epic: Georgics 2.458
  • 3.48
  • PART II: GENRE AND TRADITION: VIRGIL AND AFTER
  • 5. Virgil's Corycius senex and Nicander's Georgica: Georgics 4.116-148
  • 6. Tradition and originality: Allusion in Valerius Flaccus' Lemnian episode
  • 7. The repetitions of Hypsipyle
  • 8. Claudian: The epic poet in the prefaces
  • PART III: RECEPTIONS: REINVENTING CLASSICAL EPIC
  • 9. Approaching Christian epic: The preface of Juvencus
  • 10. Virgilian imperialism, original sin and Fracastoro's Syphilis
  • 11. The Aeneid and twentieth-century Welsh poetry
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index

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