Repetition in Latin poetry : figures of allusion / Jeffrey Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Repetition (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Allusions.

Physical Description:

xv, 506 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Word repetition was a crucial feature in Latin poetry, but most scholars discuss it only in footnotes. In this study, Wills examines how this figure was in over 10,000 quotations across the whole gamut of Latin poetry from Ennius to Juvenal. Embracing a number of hot topics such as intertextual reference, allusion, and genre, this will be a major contribution to Latin literary scholarship.

Contents:

1. Formal Features of Allusion 15

1.1. Linguistic Features of Reference 18

1.2. Learning a Grammar of Allusion 24

1.3. A Case Study in Allusive Figures: populus Priami Priamusque 33

Part I. Gemination 43

Gemination 45

2. Simple Gemination (Nominal Forms) 50

2.1. Vocatives 50

2.2. Exclamations and Revelations 58

2.3. Other Nominal Forms 65

2.4. Pronouns 76

3. Simple Gemination (Verbs and Adverbs) 89

3.1. Imperatives 89

3.2. Other Verbal Forms 102

3.3. Adverbs and Interjections 106

4. Expanded Gemination (Nominal Forms) 124

4.1. Greek Poetry 125

4.2. The Impact of Catullus 130

4.3. Virgil 145

4.4. Other Augustan Poets and the Appendix Vergiliana 159

4.5. Silver Latin 167

5. Expanded Gemination (Verbs, Phrases, and Pairs) 174

5.1. Verb-Expansion 174

5.2. Phrase-Expansion 178

5.3. Expanded Pairs 182

Part II. Polyptoton 188

Polyptoton 189

6. Noun Polyptoton 191

6.1. Battle Polyptoton 194

6.2. Amorous and Fraternal Polyptoton 202

6.3. Authorial Practices 207

7. Adjective, Derivative, and Pronoun Polyptoton 222

7.1. Adjectives by Author 225

7.2. Adjectival Gradation 231

7.3. Derivatives 238

7.4. Pronouns 241

8. Verb Polyptoton 243

8.1. Figura etymologica 243

8.2. Reinforcement and Reversal 248

9. Co-ordinated Polyptoton 254

9.1. Genitival Subordination 254

9.2. Other Types of Subordination 261

9.3. Pronominal Pairings 264

Part III. Modification 269

Modification 271

10. Noun-Shifts 272

10.1. Case-Interchange 272

10.2. Gender Combinations 279

10.3. Triplets and Other Multiples 285

11. Verb-Shifts 290

11.1. Person, Number, and Voice 290

11.2. Tense and Mood 298

12. Category-Shifts 311

12.1. Participial Resumption 311

12.2. Nouns, Verbs, Gerunds, and Gerundives 325

13. Climax 329

14. Parentheses and Asides 337

15. Responses, Echoes, and Similes 342

Part IV. Parallelism 351

Parallelism 353

16. Allusive Anaphora 354

16.1. Quadruplets, Triplets, and the Pathetic Fallacy 357

16.2. Hymnic tu 361

17. Multiple Anaphora in the Same Line 363

18. Repeated -que 372

18.1. Pairs 372

18.2. Multiples 377

18.3. Pairs of Pairs 383

Part V. General Topics 387

19. Positional Patterns 389

19.1. Adjacency 390

19.2. Adjacency across Lines (6/1) 394

19.3. Line-Initial Anaphora (1/1) 397

19.4. Parallel Half-Lines 414

19.5. Line-Final Repetition 418

19.6. Framing Patterns 426

20. Repetition in Compounds 436

20.1. Compound and Simplex 438

20.2. Simplex and Compound 443

20.3. Positive and Negative Pairs 451

21. Variations of Repetends 461

21.1. Prosodic Variation 461

21.2. Semantic Variation 469

Epilogue: Unfigured Repetition 473.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0198140843

OCLC:

33948574