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Autore: | Dainotti Paolo <1984-> |
Titolo: | Word order and expressiveness in the Aeneid / / Paolo Dainotti ; translated from Italian by Ailsa Campbell |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
©2015 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina: | 871.01 |
Soggetto topico: | Latin language - Word order |
Soggetto non controllato: | Aeneid |
expressiveness | |
hexameter | |
word order | |
Persona (resp. second.): | CampbellAilsa |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Word Order and Expressiveness in the Aeneid |
ISBN: | 3-11-040102-9 |
3-11-040112-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811641403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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