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Word order and expressiveness in the Aeneid / Paolo Dainotti ; translated from Italian by Ailsa Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Dainotti, Paolo, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Band 121.
- Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 1862-1112 ; Band 121
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin language--Word order.
- Latin language.
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by "expressiveness"? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil's Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in similar contexts and with the same stylistic effects. In this view, a rare word order as well as a relevant metrical and syntactical pattern appear to constitute a deviation from the norm stylistically motivated, that can highlight significant words or iconically stress the semantics of a passage. By combining the main notes on style from the Aeneid commentaries and the stylistic readings also applied to modern texts, the author, with a clear approach, systematically discusses the various structures of Latin hexameter - enjambement, synaloepha, hiatus, four-word lines, name-lines, relevant juxtapositions etc. - in terms of "effects", showing how they interact and converge in the text. This introduction to Virgil's expressiveness aims to be an effective tool for a stylistic reading of any Latin hexametric text.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Thanks
- Table of Contents
- Preamble
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Poetry and verse
- Chapter 2. Poetry and rhythm: on metrical expressiveness
- Chapter 3. Word order and meaning
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Diss. University of Salerno 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110401028
- 3110401029
- 9783110401127
- 3110401126
- OCLC:
- 925785868
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