The Language of Literature : Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts.
Material type: TextSeries: Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology SerPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047421801Subject(s): Greek language -- Style | Greek language -- Word order | Greek literature -- Criticism, Textual | Greek literature -- History and criticism | Latin language -- Word order | Latin literature -- Criticism, Textual | Latin literature -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Language of Literature : Linguistic Approaches to Classical TextsDDC classification: 880.09 LOC classification: PA3003.L295 2007Online resources: Click to ViewBibliography of Albert Rijksbaron -- List of Contributors -- Chapter One General Introduction (Rutger J. Allan and Michel Buijs) -- Chapter Two Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean Prologues, and Their Audiences (Irene J.F. de Jong) -- Chapter Three Mythical Chronology in the Odes of Pindar. The Cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 (Lukas van den Berge) -- Chapter Four Discourse Modes and Bases in Vergil's Aeneid (Suzanne M. Adema) -- Chapter Five Discourse Modes and the Use of Tenses in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Caroline H.M. Kroon) -- Chapter Six Sense and Sentence Complexity. Sentence Structure, Sentence Connection, and Tense-aspect as Indicators of Narrative Mode in Thucydides' Histories (Rutger J. Allan) -- Chapter Seven Aspectual Differences and Narrative Technique: Xenophon's Hellenica & Agesilaus (Michel Buijs) -- Chapter Eight L'opposition aspectuelle 'Présent' - Aoriste dans la Grande Loi de Gortyne (Jean Lallot) -- Chapter Nine Intentions and Future Realisations in Herodotus (Gerry C. Wakker) -- Chapter Ten Adjective Ordering in Herodotus: a Pragmatic Explanation (Stéphanie J. Bakker) -- Chapter Eleven From Demetrius to Dik. Ancient and Modern Views on Greek and Latin Word Order (Casper C. de Jonge) -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts.
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