Virgil's Aeneid : a critical description.
| Основен автор: | Quinn, Kenneth. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Ann Arbor, :
University of Michigan Press,
[1968].
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Съдържание:
- The heroic impulse
- Genesis. What is the Aeneid about?
- The task and its problems
- The problems solved
- Structure. General description
- Structure of the Twelve books
- The episodes
- Projection of the narrator into his narrative
- Parallel and suspended narrative
- Tempo of the narrative: tenses
- The twelve books
- Form and technique. pt. 1: Form. Not only Homer
- Difference in attitude between Virgil and Homer
- The exploitation of form
- Impure poetry
- pt. 2: Technique. Gods
- Characterization and motivation
- Parallel divine and psychological motivation
- Fate
- pt. 3: The contribution of tragedy. Tragic attitude
- Tragic suspense
- Tragic irony and insight
- Implicit comment
- Style. Words alone
- Words in action. The tradition. Ennius and the old poets
- Catullus and the new poets
- A common style
- Innovation- callida iunctura. Latent metaphor
- Archaism brought out by context
- Etymological puns
- Ambiguity
- Syntactical ambiguity
- The Virgilian sentence. Metre
- Theme and variation
- Subordinate clauses
- Imagery.