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Record Nr.

UNISA996308848803316

Autore

Conte Gian Biagio <1941->

Titolo

Stealing the club from Hercules : on imitation in Latin poetry / / Gian Biagio Conte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2017

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9783110475838

9783110474152

9783110472202

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 pages) : digital file(s)

Classificazione

FU 2510

Disciplina

871/.0109

Soggetti

Classical literature - History and criticism

Imitation in literature

Latin poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Index -- Foreword -- 1. Stealing the club from Hercules -- 2. A critical retrospective: method and its limits

Sommario/riassunto

In the first part of this volume on the literary technique of imitation, the author analyses Virgil's working over the text of Homer which paradoxically represents a true act of artistic originality. In the second chapter, the author reconstructs the presuppositions of a method and explores at the same time its limitations.