The rhetoric of imitation : genre and poetic memory in Virgil and other Latin poets

Author(s)

• Conte, Gian Biagio
• Segal, Charles

Bibliographic Information

The rhetoric of imitation : genre and poetic memory in Virgil and other Latin poets

Gian Biagio Conte ; edited and with a foreword by Charles Segal

（Cornell studies in classical philology, v. 44）（Cornell paperbacks）

Cornell University Press, 1996

• : pbk

Other Title

Memoria dei poeti e sistema letterario

Note

"Translated from the Italian"

"First published 1986 by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1996."--T.p. verso

"The essays in this volume include the larger part of Conte's two volumes Memoria dei poeti e sistema letterario: Catullo, Virgilio, Ovidio, Lucano (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1974) and Il genere e i suoi confini: Cinque studi sulla poesia di Virgilio (Turin: Editrice Stampatori, 1980; enlarged edition, Garzanti Editore, 1984)."--Foreword (p. 8)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Details

• NCID: BA40488155
• ISBN:
  • 9780801483592
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: 215 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA6047
  • DC19 : 873.01/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Latin poetry -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literary form -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Imitation in literature
  • LCSH : Memory in literature
  • LCSH : Rome -- In literature
  • LCSH : Rhetoric, Ancient
  • LCSH : Virgil. Aeneis
  • LCSH : Virgil -- Technique
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00299634
  • BA00296443