Author: Andrew James BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : el
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Latin Dual & Poetic Diction
Author: Andrew James BellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek language
Languages : el
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Latin Dual and Poetic Diction
Author: Andrew James BellThe Latin Dual and Poetic Diction: Studies in Numbers and Figures
Author: Andrew J. BellPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Latin Dual and Poetic Diction: Studies in Numbers and Figures" by Andrew J. Bell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Classical Review
Author: Words and the Poet
Author: R. O. A. M. LynePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198152613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This book identifies and categorizes such diction in Vergil, but more importantly it shows how such comparatively unpromising material is converted by the poet's methods of 'combination' (iunctura) into poetry.
Number
Author: Greville G. CorbettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521649704
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and many linguists take as the norm - namely the distinction between singular and plural (as in cat versus cats) - is only one of a wide range of possibilities to be found in languages around the world. Some languages, for instance, make more distinctions than English, having three, four or even five different values. Adopting a wide-ranging perspective, Greville Corbett draws on examples from many languages to analyse the possible systems of number. He reveals that the means for signalling number are remarkably varied and are put to a surprising range of special additional uses. By surveying some of the riches of the world s linguistic resources this book makes a major contribution to the typology of categories and demonstrates that languages are much more varied than is generally recognised.
Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
Author: Tobias ReinhardtPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263327
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
These twenty essays examine continuity and change in the language of Latin prose, from its emergence to the twelfth century AD. Issues debated include traditional distinctions between primitive archaic and sophisticated classical Latin, and between superior classical and inferior Silver Latin. A broad range of Latin authors are covered, including Caesar and Cicero, Bede and William of Malmesbury. An extensive introduction traces the volume's recurring themes - the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. The diversity of approaches makes this an essential handbook for all those interested in Latin language and literature.
B.H. Blackwell
Author: B.H. Blackwell LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
The Cult of St Swithun
Author: Michael LapidgePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198131830
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity campaign byBishop Aethelwold (963-84), St Swithun became one of the most popular and important English saints, whose cult was widespread not only in England but also in Ireland, Scandinavia, and France. The present volume includes new and full editions of all the relevant texts - hagiographical, liturgical,and historical - in Latin, Old English, and Middle English, many of which have never been published before: these illuminate the origins and development of St Swithun's cult. No dossier of an important English saint has been published on this scale until now: the wealth of this volume sheds newlight not only on St Swithun himself, but also on the times during which his cult was at the peak of its popularity.
The Poetry of Pathos
Author: Gian Biagio ContePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153689X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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.