Bulletin / The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago

• Record Nr.: UNISA996198566703316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, Ill., : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1896-1903
• Descrizione fisica: Online-Ressource
• Disciplina: 520
• Soggetti: Zeitschrift
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico

The poetry of pathos : studies in Virgilian epic / / Gian Biagio Conte ; edited by S.J. Harrison

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910972946503321
• Autore: Conte Gian Biagio <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 019153689X; 9780191536892
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 250 p
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisonS. J; ConteGian Biagio <1941->
• Disciplina: 871/.01
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume translates the contents of Virgilio: lepica del sentimento (Turin, 2002), with the addition of Chapters 1 and 5, both published here for the first time, and Chapters 7 and 9, both previously published in Italian in G.B. Conte, Virgilio: il genere e i suoi confini (2nd edition; Milan, 1984)"--Editor's pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-243) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / by Stephen Harrison -- The Virgilian paradox : an epic of drama and pathos -- Anatomy of a style : enallage and the new ; sublime -- Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics : once again -- The strategy of contradiction : on the dramatic form of the Aeneid -- Defensor Vergilii : Richard Heinze on Virgil's epic technique -- Towards a new exegesis of Virgil : reconsiderations and proposals -- The meeting of stylistics and textual criticism -- Proems in the middle.
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of essays on Virgil's Aeneid by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be debased or exhausted.