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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Pàgina 14
... unreality becomes the object of amiable badinage . The style of Pliny's own narrative hovers : it is sometimes mock - poetic , generally unlike prose in its richness of detail , unlike poetry in the elegant simplicity of its symmetries ...
... unreality becomes the object of amiable badinage . The style of Pliny's own narrative hovers : it is sometimes mock - poetic , generally unlike prose in its richness of detail , unlike poetry in the elegant simplicity of its symmetries ...
Pàgina 64
... unreality is far from straightforward . The absence of the author's voice produces a large difference from the prose ; but the forcefulness with which he diverts straightforward responses makes his mind , like Ovid's in the ...
... unreality is far from straightforward . The absence of the author's voice produces a large difference from the prose ; but the forcefulness with which he diverts straightforward responses makes his mind , like Ovid's in the ...
Pàgina 185
... unreality , the unreality of their gods is strongly conjoined with a conspicuous element of lightness , of grandeur modified and mingled with detached play . On this element par- ticular emphasis will be laid : such play , and such ...
... unreality , the unreality of their gods is strongly conjoined with a conspicuous element of lightness , of grandeur modified and mingled with detached play . On this element par- ticular emphasis will be laid : such play , and such ...
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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