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Word Order and Expressiveness in the "Aeneid" / Paolo Dainotti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; 121Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110384222
  • 9783110401127
  • 9783110401028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 490
LOC classification:
  • PA6932 .D3513 2015
  • PA6932
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Dissertation note: Diss. University of Salerno 2013. Summary: 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.
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Diss. University of Salerno 2013.

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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