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Performing and processing The Aeneid / B.G. Campbell.

Van Pelt Library PA6825 .C357 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Campbell, B. G., 1931-
Series:
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 48.
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, 0893-6935 ; vol. 48
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Virgil. Aeneis--Criticism, Textual.
Virgil.
Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
Aeneas.
Epic poetry, Latin--Criticism, Textual.
Epic poetry, Latin.
Performing arts--Rome.
Performing arts.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Oral tradition--Rome.
Oral tradition.
Virgil--Manuscripts.
Transmission of texts.
Manuscripts.
Criticism, Textual.
Genre:
Epic poetry, Latin.
Physical Description:
xii, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : P. Lang, 2001.
Contents:
1 Chirographic Texts
Passages-and-Stages Model 7
"Flintstoning" 17
Focus on Rome 20
Why Listeners and Dictators? 23
The Aeneid: a Chirographic Text 34
2 The Sound
Assumptions about the Roman Epic 40
Some Phonological Givens of Classical Latin 42
Dactylic Hexameter and a Partial Theory of Prosody 46
Elision and Contraction 49
Analyses of Selected Lines of Verse from The Aeneid 54
3 The Syntax
Syntactic Chunking 60
An Example: Aeneid 10. 258-286 62
Problematic Stretches of Text: Dis-Ease of Processing 67
One Aspect of Syntactic Structuring: the Use of Conjunction for Aural Processing 71
4 Deictic Anchoring
Worlds of the Text 90
Exophoric and Endophoric Anchoring 92
Aeneid 12. 500-553: Aristeiai of Aeneas and Turnus 100
5 Semantic And Structural Foregrounding: is, ea, id
is, ea, id 108
Foregrounding Functions 110
Semantic Foregrounding 112
Structural Foregrounding 123
6 The Narrative
Structural Analyses of Book 10 136
Italians Winning
Lines 1-344 139
Stalemate
Lines 345-605 141
Trojans Winning
Lines 606-908 143.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-174) and index.
ISBN:
0820452661
OCLC:
45166679

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