Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition - Rilegato

Barchiesi, Alessandro

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ISBN 10: 069116181X ISBN 13: 9780691161815

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the first English translation of one of the most important and influential modern studies in this tradition. In this revised and expanded edition, Alessandro Barchiesi advances innovative approaches even as he recuperates significant earlier interpretations, from Servius to G. N. Knauer.

Approaching Homeric allusions in the Aeneid as "narrative effects" rather than glimpses of the creative mind of the author at work, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative demonstrates how these allusions generate hesitations and questions, as well as insights and guidance, and how they participate in the creation of narrative meaning. The book also examines how layers of competing interpretations in Homer are relevant to the Aeneid, revealing again the richness of the Homeric tradition as a component of meaning in the Aeneid. Finally, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative goes beyond previous studies of the Aeneid by distinguishing between two forms of Homeric intertextuality: reusing a text as an individual model or as a generic matrix.

For this edition, a new chapter has been added, and in a new afterword the author puts the book in the context of changes in the study of Latin literature and intertextuality.

A masterful work of classical scholarship, Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative also has valuable insights for the wider study of imitation, allusion, intertextuality, epic, and literary theory.

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Recensione:

Praise for the Italian edition: "A fine study of Virgilian and Homeric intertextuality." --Don Fowler, Times Literary Supplement

Praise for the Italian edition: "[Barchiesi’s] constant awareness of the ‘intertextual’ operation of Homer on every level, combined with able deployment of verbal detail, classical reading and bibliography, makes for a stimulating read. . . . This book is full of interesting ideas and details; as a literary treatment of Homeric allusion it constitutes an improvement on Knauer’s sometimes mechanical approach, and deserves the attention of scholars." --Stephen J. Harrison, Journal of Roman Studies

L'autore:

Alessandro Barchiesi is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Classics at Stanford University and professor of Latin literature at the University of Siena, Italy. He is the author of several books and the coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 069116181X
• ISBN 13: 9780691161815
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 193