Word Order and Expressiveness in the "Aeneid"
When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by “expressiveness”? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil’s Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective.
Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in simila...
When can word order be considered expressive? And what we do mean by “expressiveness”? This work, based upon a statistical and stylistical enquiry into Virgil’s Aeneid as well of other hexametric poetry, aims to answer these questions from an appropriate perspective.
Through offering a detailed analysis of selected passages, the author stresses the evident recurrence of the same figures in simila...
