The poetry of pathos : studies in Virgilian epic / / Gian Biagio Conte ; edited by S.J. Harrison.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:250 p.
Notes:"This volume translates the contents of Virgilio: lepica del sentimento (Turin, 2002), with the addition of Chapters 1 and 5, both published here for the first time, and Chapters 7 and 9, both previously published in Italian in G.B. Conte, Virgilio: il genere e i suoi confini (2nd edition; Milan, 1984)"--Editor's pref.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Stephen Harrison
  • The Virgilian paradox : an epic of drama and pathos
  • Anatomy of a style : enallage and the new sublime
  • Aristaeus, Orpheus, and the Georgics : once again
  • The strategy of contradiction : on the dramatic form of the Aeneid
  • Defensor Vergilii : Richard Heinze on Virgil's epic technique
  • Towards a new exegesis of Virgil : reconsiderations and proposals
  • The meeting of stylistics and textual criticism
  • Proems in the middle.