Author : Gian Biagio Conte
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019153689X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Pathos by : Gian Biagio Conte
Download or read book The Poetry of Pathos written by Gian Biagio Conte and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.