TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dainotti,Paolo
AU  - Campbell,Ailsa
TI  - Word Order and Expressiveness in the "Aeneid"
T2  - Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ,
SN  - 9783110384222
AV  - PA6932 .D3513 2015
U1  - 490 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Latin language
KW  - Word order
KW  - Aeneis
KW  - Ausdruckskraft
KW  - Hexameter
KW  - Ordo verborum
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeneid
KW  - expressiveness
KW  - hexameter
KW  - word order
N1  - Diss; Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401028
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110401028
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110401028/original
ER  -