Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic - Trimete

Informationen zum Autor By Nicholas Baechle Klappentext This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Those choices were made in response to the competing demands of metrical constrain and the poets' sense of what was stylistically appropriate for tragic trimeters. Zusammenfassung This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations in word order and prosody. Those choices were made in response to the competing demands of metrical constrain and the poets' sense of what was stylistically appropriate for tragic trimeters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Treatment of Word Shapes in Composition and the Use of Prosodic Variation Chapter 2 Definition of Word Shapes Chapter 3 Metrical Lengthening of Short Final Vowels Chapter 4 Correptio Attica vs Metrical Lengthening Chapter 5 Synizesis Chapter 6 Elision and Lengthening of Words Shaped Part 7 The Use of Hyperbation in Composition and its Interpretation Chapter 8 Marked Forms of Word Order for Prepositional Phrases Chapter 9 Metrical and Prosodic Variations at Mid-Line Chapter 10 Hyperbata of the Form Modifier-Verb-Noun or the Reverse Chapter 11 Distribution of Word Shapes

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Baechle
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2007
• EAN: 9780739121436
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2143-6
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama