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Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739112403
Veröffentl:
2005
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.09.2005
Seiten:
142
Autor:
Prudence J. Jones
Gewicht:
217 g
Format:
229x152x8 mm
Serie:
Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Prudence J. Jones is Assistant Professor of Humanities and the Classics at Montclair State University
This study examines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Vergil. It first considers the Greco-Roman understanding of the river in its primary symbolic roles, cosmological, ritual and ethnographical, and then analyzes the river as a literary device, arguing that descriptions of rivers in Roman poetry are, in many cases, a form of authorial comment on the progress or structure of a narrative.
Chapter 1 Cosmology Chapter 2 Ritual Chapter 3 Ethnography Chapter 4 The River That Talks: Rivers and Poetic Speech Chapter 5 Round Rivers: Okeanos and Bounded Narrative Chapter 6 Agmen Aquarum: River Catalogues Chapter 7 Up the Creek: Upstream Voyages and Narrative Structure Chapter 8 Overflow: The Reception of River Motifs