Under each topic, Jeffrey Wills studies extensively the authorial preferences and traditions of the various genres, with figures arising from the positional and framing structures of repetitions collected at the end. A section on formal means of allusion and the special attention given throughout the book to the use of figures for intertextual reference also makes the work a major contribution to the Latin poetics of allusion.
This volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., "Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria"; T. D. Barnes, "Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14"; Daniel R. Blickman, "Lucretius, Epicurus, and Prehistory"; John Bodel, "Missing Links: Thymatulum or Tomaculum?"; Alan Cameron, "Biondo's Ammianus: Constantius and Hormisdas at Rome"; James J. Clauss, "The Episode of the Lycian Farmers in Ovid's Metamorphoses"; Gregory Crane, "Creon and the "Ode to Man" in Sophocles' Antigone"; Thomas N. Habinek, "Science and Tradition in Aeneid 6"; Edward M. Harris, "Demosthenes' Speech against Meidias"; J. M. Hunt, "Apolloniana"; Peter E. Knox, "Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus"; Christina S. Kraus, "Liviana Minima"; Robert Mondi, "Χαοσ and the Hesiodic Cosmogony"; Charles E. Murgia, "Propertius 4.1.87-88 and the Division of 4.1"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Pindar, Nemean 7.31-36 and the Syntax of Aetiology"; William H. Race, "Climactic Elements in Pindar's Verse"; Eckart Schütrumpf, "Traditional Elements in the Concept of Hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics"; Charles Segal, "Poetic Immortality and the Fear of Death: The Second Proem of the De Rerum Natura"; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, "Albanius or Albinius? A Palinode Resung" and "More on Quintilian's (?) Shorter Declamations"; W. S. Watt, "Notes on Seneca, Tragedies"; and Clifford Weber, "Egeria's Norman Homeland."
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
In recent years, many humanists and social scientists have rejected the notion that understanding is a simple matter of encoding and decoding. Current theory in linguistic pragmatics, in rhetoric, in cultural anthropology, and in literary theory, stresses the situated, interactive, rhetorical nature of understanding. Various approaches to the ways understanding is constructed in the process of interaction--such as interactional sociolinguistics, epistemic rhetoric, ethnography of communication, functionalist poetics, and reader response theory--make reference to the crucial role of repetition in this process. Linguists have examined repetition in conversation and in language acquisition. Anthropologists and folklorists have studied the role of parallelism as a feature of performance and as a recurring characteristic of ritual forms of talk. Students of poetics discuss repetition as a key feature of artistic language. Literary theorists and rhetoricians discuss "intertextuality," or the ways in which the authors of new texts make use of old texts. Clearly, anyone interested in a comprehensive theory of understanding must pay close attention to the mechanisms and functions of repetition. -- Preface.
The first chapter of this unusual and instructive work shows how the study of sound patterns in Old Testament Hebrew poetry is integral to the investigation of bublical poetry. Then several chapters describe and systematize the sound patterns, beginning with simpler examples of assonance and alliteration. The analysis gradually moves on to more complex configurations which link words and phrases, emphasize key words, mark off syntactical and semantic units, and highlight word repetition and word play. A relationship between sound pattern and meaning in each proverb is shown throughout.