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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941-
Other Authors: Harrison, S. J.
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Italian
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Virgil. > Aeneis.
Virgil > Criticism and interpretation.
Virgil. > Georgica.
Physical Description:250 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.