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Polyhymnia : The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse / Gregson Davis.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Gregson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laudatory poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Laudatory poetry, Latin.
- Odes, Latin--History and criticism.
- Odes, Latin.
- Horace. Carmina.
- Horace.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 282 p. )
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1991]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies--what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication, consolation, and praise and dispraise--Davis produces enlightening, new interpretations of this classic work. Polyhymnia, named after one of the Muses invoked in Horace's opening poem, revises the common image of Horace as a complacent, uncomplicated, and basically superficial singer. Focusing on the artistic persona--the lyric "self" that is constituted in the text--Davis explores how the lyric speaker constructs subtle "arguments" whose building-blocks are topoi, recurrent motifs, and generic conventions. By examining the substructure of lyric argument in groupings of poems sharing similar strategies, the author discloses the major principles that inform Horatian lyric composition.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- 1. Modes of Assimilation
- 2. Modes of Authentication
- 3. Modes of Consolation: Convivium and carpe diem
- 4. Modes of Praise and Dispraise
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780520910300
- 0520910303
- 9780585139715
- 0585139717
- OCLC:
- 1198930050
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