Aspects of the language of Latin prose
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Aspects of the language of Latin prose
(Proceedings of the British Academy, 129)
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-441) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Twenty articles from two often dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense, but as encompassing the literary exploitation of linguistic effects and the influence of formal rhetoric on prose. Key themes explored throughout the volume are the use of poetic diction
in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. Papers cover a comprehensive range of material including studies of individual works, groups of authors such as the Republican historians, prose genres such as the ancient novel or medieval biography, and linguistic topics such as the use of
connectives in archaic Latin or prose rhythm in medieval Latin. The diversity of approaches displayed from an international array of experts will make this an essential resource for all those interested in Latin language and literature.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The Bellum Africum
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar's Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero's Adaptation of Legal Latin in the De legibus
- Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope's Spider and Cicero's Writing
- The Impracticability of 'Kunstprosa'
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Languages of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
- 'Langues reduites au lexique'? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede's Prose
- Translator's Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: : Gerhard of Ausburg's Vita S. Uodalrici
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
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