10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMOEBEAN»
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1
Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues
3. Dialogue. and. Textuality. in. the. Amoebean. Eclogues. As we saw in the
preceding chapter, in the Eclogues impersonations of voice come to reflect on
their own fictiveness and textuality in the absence of a stable personal source.
2
The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral
As we turn to Garcilaso we may first observe that the amoebean song has, as we
saw in our study of the total structure of the eclogue, a function different from the
amoebean song in Virgil: in the Latin poet there is no «closing» mechanism like ...
Darío Fernández-Morera, 1982
3
Миф И Литература Древности: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature
Therefore one must not mistake amoebean for dialog. In folklore there is
amoebean; its traces can be found in choral songs, both lyric and dramatic,
where the semichoruses contradict, "repeat," "ask questions," and "answer." The
image of ...
Olga Freidenberg, Vyacheslav Ivanov, 1997
4
Theocritus: A Selection: Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13
The contest itself takes the form of an 'amoebean' (i.e. alternating) exchange of
couplets, in which the second singer must, to some extent, follow and try to cap
the themes set by the first;22 those themes are more or less exclusively rustic.
Theocritus, Richard L. Hunter, 1999
5
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
See F. O. Matthiessen's The American Renaissance (1941). amoebean (Gk '
interchanging') This term relates to verses, couplets or stanzas spoken alternately
by two speakers. A device very similar to stichomythia (q.v.) and highly effective
in ...
6
Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman ...
Catullus 62 is a tour deforce of amoebean poetry, with lines 42/44 in strict
responsion with lines 53/55. By eliciting such a close response at Met. 3.353/355,
Catullus' pairs of lines in effect transmit their amoebean pattern from the text to
the ...
7
History of Latin Literature
It is largely copied from Theocritus 4 and 5, which are similarly amoebean, or in
dialogue. Pollio is mentioned in this poem, as are Bavius and Maevius, two
poetasters whom Vergil (and Horace) loathed. Eclogue 7 is another amoebean ...
8
A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne
As is the rule in amoebean verse, the loser is in indirect ways the winner:
Berlioz's Dido loses in the poetic exchanges, but wins her Aeneas when she
allows him to pardon her. Very classic and very deft. Another such amoebean
exchange, ...
9
A commentary on Catullus...
Then begins the amoebean song proper, 20—58, consisting of 3 strophes sung
by the maidens, 3 antistrophes by the youths ; these are general, speaking first of
the evening-star, his cruelty or kindness, his unwel- comeness or welcomeness; ...
10
Annual Report to the League of Nations on the Administration ...
No case of cholera, plague, yellow fever, malaria, sleeping sickness, etc., has
ever been discovered in the Islands, the only infectious diseases so far occurred
being typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever and amoebean dysentery. During 1936,
170 ...
