Stealing the club from Hercules : on imitation in Latin poetry /

The author seeks to demonstrate in the first chapter (which analyzes Virgil's working over of the text of Homer) that "on the contrary, imitation very often is the actual path of originality, the condition thanks to which it is brought into being--at least in the classical literatures, and...

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Main Author:	Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]
Subjects:	Virgil Iliad (Homer) Imitation in literature. Latin poetry > History and criticism. Imitation (Littérature) Poésie latine > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. Latin poetry Classical literature Imitation in literature Literary style Classics Aeneas Aeneid Homer Intertextuality Philology Structuralism Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:	The author seeks to demonstrate in the first chapter (which analyzes Virgil's working over of the text of Homer) that "on the contrary, imitation very often is the actual path of originality, the condition thanks to which it is brought into being--at least in the classical literatures, and as I believe, not only there. In the second chapter I reconstruct the presuppositions of a method."
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 online resource (61 pages))
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9783110474152 3110474158 9783110475838 3110475839