Poetry of Pathos

Studies in Virgilian Epic
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-928701-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conte, Gian Biagio

Harrison, S J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: S. J. Harrison: Introduction

- 2: The Virgilian Paradox: An Epic of Drama and Pathos

- 3: Anatomy of a Style: Enallage and the New Sublime

- 4: Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics Again

- 5: The Strategy of Contradiction: On the Dramatic Form of the Aeneid

- 6: Defensor Vergili: Richard Heinze on Virgil's Epic Technique

- 7: Towards a New Exegesis of Virgil: Reconsiderations and Proposals

- 8: The Meeting of Stylistics and Textual Criticism

- 9: Proems in the Middle

Über Autor(innen)

Gian Biagio Conte is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.

S. J. Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.