Repetition in Latin Poetry
Figures of Allusion
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:26th Dec '96
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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, polyptotn, anaphora etc. are finally treated systematically as distinct stylistic markers. Under each topic, Professor 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 in different ways.
important book ... an indispensable work of reference ... Professor Wills's treatment of 'figured repetition' is authoritative. * R. G. M. Nisbet, The Classical Review *
The first fully stystematci codification of repetition in Latin poetry ... throughout the whole enterprise ... the results are equally valuable, for the investigation of individual poems and authors as well as for a depper undertanding of the development of Latin moders of imaginative expression ... but the main value of this rich work will be as much in the detailed analyses of countless specific instances as in the manifold possibilities for referencing, and cross-referencing, across the history of classical poetry that now become readily available to its scholars ... This is a work of major importance in the scholarship fo Latin literature. Both for the study of the masterufl use of repetition by the Roman poets and as a mine for data on the interpretation of particular texts, it will take a rightful place as in indispensable source of reference and illumination.
Jeffrey Wills has tackled a vast and important topic, done a quite enormous amount of work and produced a brilliant book. Latinists will have to consult Repetition in Latin Poetry frequently, and it is destined to become a standard reference work ... he makes an important and timely contribution to a lively field of research ... One can have nothing but admiration for W.'s scholarly industry, precision and sensitivity. His book well be consulted with profit and pleasure for a long time to come. * Damien P. Nelis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
ISBN: 9780198140849
Dimensions: 242mm x 167mm x 34mm
Weight: 967g
522 pages