Comparative Studies in Republican Latin Imagery / Elaine Fantham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fantham, Elaine, author.

Series:

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Figures of speech.

Latin language.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.

Rome.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Of all stylistic devices, imagery has the greatest appeal to the imagination, but is also the most likely to offend, either by staleness or by tasteless excess. This volume establishes some of the limitations which govern figurative language in Latin speech and prose by exploring such questions as these: From what physical or social contexts is Latin imagery derived? To what extent is it influenced by the primacy of Greek as a cultural language and the derivation of the earliest Latin literature from Greek models? How are the metaphors expressed in terms of syntax, through verb, noun, adjective, or a combination of syntactical forms? How are the form and content of imagery related to the literary genre? In this study Professor Fantham analyses in detail the conservative imagery of Terence and of Cicero's letters, contrasting this naturalistic language with the fantasies of Plautus and the formalization of Cicero's speeches. A separate chapter on the de Oratore shows how the thematic and structural use of metaphor and analogy provide balance and continuity, giving Latin prose imagery its full role in a mature classical work of art. Numerous illustrative passages from Greek New Comedy, Terence, Plautus, and Cicero are reproduced in the text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Imagery of Terence

Introduction. Metaphor and imagery in Terence

1. The main categories of metaphorical allusion

2. Individual usages

3. A comparison of imagery in Plautus and Terence

Appendix I. The imagery of love in Terence and sermo amatorius

Part II. Artistic Deviation And Development

4. Plautus and the imagery of fantasy

5. Beyond sermo familiaris: the imagery of rhetoric

6. Imagery in the literary dialogue: Cicero's de Oratore

Appendix II. Criticial comments on the use of metaphor in de Oratore 3.155-68

7. Some conclusions

Indexes

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487596842

1487596847

9781487595135

1487595131

OCLC:

1091657996