Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-726332-7
Verlag: British Academy

Buch, Englisch, Band 129, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Proceedings of the British Academy

International array of experts in the field of Latin prose
- Interdisciplinary approach which offers new insights into classical and medieval Latin
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.

Contents
- J. N. Adams, Michael Lapidge, and Tobias Reinhardt: Introduction
- J. H. W. Penney: Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- J. Briscoe: Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- J. N. Adams: The Bellum Africum
- Christina Shuttleworth Kraus: Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar's Style and its Earliest Critics
- J. G. F. Powell: Cicero's Adaptation of Legal Latin in the De legibus
- Tobias Reinhardt: Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- G. O. Hutchinson: Pope's Spider and Cicero's Writing
- R. G. Mayer: The Impracticability of 'Kunstprosa'
- H. M. Hine: Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- Harm Pinkster: The Language of Pliny the Elder
- D. R. Russell: Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- S. J. Harrison: The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Languages of Apuleius' Metamorphoses
- D. R. Langslow: 'Langues réduites au lexique'? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Danuta Shanzer: of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Michael Lapidge: Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- Richard Sharpe: The Varieties of Bede's Prose
- Carlotta Dionisotti: Translator's Latin
- Walter Berschin: Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Ausburg's Vita S. Uodalrici
- R. M. Thomson: William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Giovanni Orlandi: Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Latin language and literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reinhardt, Tobias

Lapidge, Michael

Adams, J N

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Tobias Reinhardt, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Michael Lapidge, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy, and J. N. Adams, Senior Research Fellow in Classics, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy

Contributors: J. N. Adams, Michael Lapidge, and Tobias Reinhardt J. H. W. Penney J. Briscoe J. N. Adams Christina Shuttleworth Kraus J. G. F. Powell Tobias Reinhardt G. O. Hutchinson R. G. Mayer H. M. Hine Harm Pinkster D. R. Russell S. J. Harrison D. R. Langslow Danuta Shanzer Michael Lapidge Richard Sharpe Carlotta Dionisotti Walter Berschin R. M. Thomson Giovanni Orlandi