Author : Robert Joseph Edgeworth
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis The Colors of the Aeneid by : Robert Joseph Edgeworth
Download or read book The Colors of the Aeneid written by Robert Joseph Edgeworth and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In composing his masterpiece, the Aeneid, Vergil used colors as none of his predecessors had done. In place of the largely formulaic and functional employment of color, Vergil wove a complex network of chromatic allusions, linking episode to episode, developing a set of color themes or «chords» which strongly influence the reader's response to key passages in the epic. This study further argues that Vergil anticipated a favorite device of modern film makers by «shooting» certain sections of the poem in color and others in black and white. Long appreciated for its intellectual and ethical dimensions, the Aeneid must also be seen as a masterful appeal to the senses.