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Polyhymnia - The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse (Hardcover)
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Polyhymnia - The Rhetoric of Horation Lyric Discourse (Hardcover)
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Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their
rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent
trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and
deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical
strategies--what he calls modes of assimilation, authentication,
consolation, and praise and dispraise--Davis produces enlightening,
new interpretations of this classic work. 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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