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... narratives that reveal his true attitude to myth . He never tells any story or action in a symmetrical or balanced fashion : even the shortest piece of narrative is asymmetrically pointed at a particular scene and a particular effect ...
... narratives that reveal his true attitude to myth . He never tells any story or action in a symmetrical or balanced fashion : even the shortest piece of narrative is asymmetrically pointed at a particular scene and a particular effect ...
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... narrative , this kind of psychological development and symbolic unity . We can now at last begin to see the true character of Virgil's narrative style . As compared with that of either Homer or Apollonius , it is subjective or more ...
... narrative , this kind of psychological development and symbolic unity . We can now at last begin to see the true character of Virgil's narrative style . As compared with that of either Homer or Apollonius , it is subjective or more ...
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... narrative continuity of Homeric epic . Heracles and Polydeuces are no longer heroes moving in an heroic and divine atmosphere : the disparity between their traditional mythical status and the Alexandrine personalities with which ...
... narrative continuity of Homeric epic . Heracles and Polydeuces are no longer heroes moving in an heroic and divine atmosphere : the disparity between their traditional mythical status and the Alexandrine personalities with which ...
Contents
The Mystery of the Aeneid I | 1 |
From Homer to Virgil The Obsolescence of Epic | 5 |
The Subjective Style | 41 |
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