ISBN: 9780520070776 - polyhymnia: the rhetoric of horatian lyric discourse (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* FAST SHIPPING!.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has minor edgewear with light creasing. Spine a bit sunned.; Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies--what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication, consolation, and praise and dispraise--Davis produces enlightening, new interpretations of this classic work. Polyhymnia, named after one of the Muses invoked in Horace's opening poem, revises the common image of Horace as a complacent, uncomplicated, and basically superficial singer. Focusing on the artistic persona--the lyric "self" that is constituted in the text--Davis explores how the lyric speaker constructs subtle "arguments" whose building-blocks are topoi, recurrent motifs, and generic conventions. By examining the substructure of lyric argument in groupings of poems sharing similar strategies, the author discloses the major principles that inform Horatian lyric composition.; 293 pages.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 282 pp. Subjects; Horace Criticism and interpretation. Studies. Odes. Laudatory poetry, Latin History and criticism. Rhetoric, Ancient. Carmina. 1 Kg. …

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Zustand: New. pp. 293.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 293 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies--what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication, consolation, and praise and dispraise--Davis produces enlightening, new interpretations of this classic work.Polyhymnia, named after one of the Muses invoked in Horace's opening poem, revises the common image of Horace as a complacent, uncomplicated, and basically superficial singer. Focusing on the artistic persona--the lyric 'self' that is constituted in the text--Davis explores how the lyric speaker constructs subtle 'arguments' whose building-blocks are topoi, recurrent motifs, and generic conventions. By examining the substructure of lyric argument in groupings of poems sharing similar strategies, the author discloses the major principles that inform Horatian lyric composition.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorGregson Davis is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.Klappentextrnrn Succinct and elegantly written, firmly grounded in sound philology, open to contemporary criti.