Latin Literature from Seneca to Juvenal: A Critical StudyClarendon Press, 1993 - 368 pàgines This book explores central aspects of the period in Latin literature often depreciatingly termed 'Silver'. It is unusual in embracing both poetry and prose, and in offering close literary discussion of a large number of particular passages. It is not a history, but a selective and comparative study; it throws fresh light on the period as a whole, on individual authors, and on differences and affinities between genres. Most space is given to epic and tragedy, and to the prose of Seneca and Tacitus; but Juvenal, Martial, the Younger Pliny, and other authors are also treated. The book considers large features of genre, and relates these to fundamental elements of style and to the treatment of some vital themes. It aims to give the reader a feeling for this brilliant, and extraordinary, writing, and a sense of the excitement and fascination of the literary period. Latin in the text is translated. |
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... effect , not in ostensible tone , this is all entertaining comedy , and can scarcely be taken very seriously . 63 Even Juvenal's most darkly impressive effects ( as at 10. 112f . ) derive from peculiar combinations and from twistings of ...
... effect , not in ostensible tone , this is all entertaining comedy , and can scarcely be taken very seriously . 63 Even Juvenal's most darkly impressive effects ( as at 10. 112f . ) derive from peculiar combinations and from twistings of ...
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... effect ) ; and for pity the triumphant and impervious Caesar seems a very unlikely object . 18 And yet the underlying paradox takes up the first line , and Lucan goes on to justify it in forceful rhetoric ; this he ends with the paradox ...
... effect ) ; and for pity the triumphant and impervious Caesar seems a very unlikely object . 18 And yet the underlying paradox takes up the first line , and Lucan goes on to justify it in forceful rhetoric ; this he ends with the paradox ...
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... effect is the more bizarre in the unexpected context of a race.31 The first line suggests with startling speed the grisly psychology of renascent blood - lust ; the next opens with the name Hippodamus ( ' tamer of horses ' , but ...
... effect is the more bizarre in the unexpected context of a race.31 The first line suggests with startling speed the grisly psychology of renascent blood - lust ; the next opens with the name Hippodamus ( ' tamer of horses ' , but ...
Continguts
Criticism in Prose Lower Poetry | 4 |
Genre and Philosophy History and High Poetry | 40 |
Wit | 77 |
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action actually Aeson Alcimede Amycus appears aspects Astyanax Capaneus clause climax close complicated context contrast death declamation depicts display divine Domitian effect Elder Seneca element emotion enjambment epic epigram episode Eteocles expression extravagance extreme force genre gives gods grandeur grandiose handling Hercules high poetry Hippolytus Hist impact ingenuity intellectual Juno Jupiter Juvenal language lavish less literary literature Lucan magnificent Mars Martial moral mythological Naevolus narration narrative oratory Ovid paradox particularly passage pathos Paullus Pelias philosophical phrase physical play Plin Pliny Pliny's poem poet poet's poetic Pompey Pompey's praef present prose Quint Quintilian reader reality relation rhetoric Roman scene Seneca sense sentence shows significant Silius speech Statius Stoic Stoicism strange sublimity suggests Tacitus Theb theme Thyestes Tiberius tragedy treatment truth Tydeus unreality Valerius Venus viii Virg Virgil Vitellius whole words writing
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Gesetzt den Fall, ein Geist erscheint: Komposition und Motivik der ps ... Nicola Hömke Visualització de fragments - 2002 |