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Repetition in Latin Poetry

By Jeffrey Wills

Repetition in Latin Poetry Law

Repetition in Latin Poetry

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The first comprehensive treatment of Latin figures of repetition, this poetic handbook includes over ten thousand quotations from Ennius to Juvenal, with numerous examples From Latin prose and Greek literature for comparison. Long relegated to commentary notes, the figures of gemination, epanalepsis, polyptoton, and anaphora, for example, are finally treated systematically as distinct stylistic markers. Under each topic, Jeffrey Wills studies extensively the authorial preferences and traditions of the various genres, with figures arising from the positional and framing structures of repetitions collected at the end. A section on formal means of allusion and the special attention given throughout the book to the use of figures for intertextual reference also makes the work a major contribution to the Latin poetics of allusion. Literary critics, textual critics, and commentators should all find this volume indispensable.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
524
Release Date:
1997-02-20
Publication Date:
2001-08-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198140843
ISBN13:
9780198140849
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
993 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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