The Jeweled Style : : Poetry and Poetics in Late Antiquity / / Michael J. Roberts.

In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period—the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2010
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 22 halftones, 1 line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXTS
  • THE LITERARY TRADITION AND ITS REFINEMENT
  • POETRY AND THE VISUAL ARTS
  • VARIATIONS OF STYLE: THE CHRISTIAN CONTRIBUTION
  • EPILOGUE
  • GLOSSARY OF RHETORICAL TERMS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • TEXT EDITIONS USED
  • INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED
  • General Index