Word Order and Expressiveness in the "Aeneid" / / Paolo Dainotti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Dainotti, Paolo,
• MitwirkendeR: Campbell, Ailsa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte , 121
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)

When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by “expressiveness”? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil’s Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective. Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in similar contexts and with the same stylistic effects. In this view, a rare word order as well as a relevant metrical and syntactical pattern appear to constitute a deviation from the norm stylistically motivated, that can highlight significant words or iconically stress the semantics of a passage. By combining the main notes on style from the Aeneid commentaries and the stylistic readings also applied to modern texts, the author, with a clear approach, systematically discusses the various structures of Latin hexameter – enjambement, synaloepha, hiatus, four-word lines, name-lines, relevant juxtapositions etc. – in terms of “effects”, showing how they interact and converge in the text. This introduction to Virgil’s expressiveness aims to be an effective tool for a stylistic reading of any Latin hexametric text.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Thanks -- Table of Contents -- Preamble -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Poetry and verse -- Chapter 2. Poetry and rhythm: on metrical expressiveness -- Chapter 3. Word order and meaning -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum