Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, 1991
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- Title
- Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse
- Author
- Davis, Gregson
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520070771
- ISBN 13
- 9780520070776
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
Polyhymnia, named after one of the Muses invoked in Horace's opening poem, revises the common image of Horace as a complacent, uncomplicated, and basically superficial singer. Focusing on the artistic persona―the lyric "self" that is constituted in the text―Davis explores how the lyric speaker constructs subtle "arguments" whose building-blocks are topoi, recurrent motifs, and generic conventions. By examining the substructure of lyric argument in groupings of poems sharing similar strategies, the author discloses the major principles that inform Horatian lyric composition.
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