10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASYNDETA»
Discover the use of
asyndeta in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
asyndeta and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Thus, for instance, in the speech against Midias the asyndeta are interwoven with
the figures of repetition and vivid presentation.3 "For the aggressor may do many
injuries, some of which the victim could not even describe to anyone else — by ...
Aristotle, Stephen Halliwell, William Hamilton Fyfe, 1995
2
Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study
In detail: 1) Nominal asyndeta, namely: a) Single-word asyndeta (corresponding
to the accumulation forms § 668): Ps.Rufin. Lex.. 20 asyndeton ... per singula
verba fit: "aera, manus, navalia demus" (Verg. A. 11.329), et: "haec eadem,
Aenea, ...
Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson, 1998
3
An Introduction to Menander
as staccato as Getas, but it has similar patches of reported speech and three
considerable asyndeta (558, 573, 58 5).” This speech of Onesimos is probably
the nearest thing in the preserved plays to the monologues where a slave
wonders ...
Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster, 1974
4
The Forensic Stage: Settling Disputes in Graeco-Roman New Comedy
19-20, Ter. Ad. 867, and Dem. de eloe. 193-94 (cf. Arist. Rhet. 3.12.1413b where
the use of asyndeta is likewise said to lend itself to acting or delivery); Ferrero
1976 provides a detailed study of asyndeta in Menander. Gomme and Sandbach
...
5
Paul's Literary Style: A Stylistic and Historical Comparison ...
He also omits the conjunction in two lengthy sentences (4, 13).n The effect of
asyndeton is surprise. It produces a hurried rhythm in the sentence. Paul
combines ellipsis and asyndeta when he asks, "Are they servants of Christ?...!
even more.
Aida Besancon Spencer, 2007
6
Octavia: A Play Attributed to Seneca
On asyndeta and pathos in Greek rhetorical and stylistic theory cf. Ar. Rhet.
3.1413b29; Aesch. Eum. 144 (with schol. M); De subl. 19-20; N. O'Sullivan,
Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theom (Stuttgart,
1992), 47, ...
D. Finally, as I already mentioned, the asyndeta. The text normally begins
asyndetically after the lemmata.55 Given the fact that asyndeta are in Aspas- ius (
as in any Greek author) very rare, we can be quite sure that their regular
occurrence ...
Antonina M. Alberti, R. W. Sharples, 1999
8
Title of Address in Christian Latin Epistolography to 543 A.D
Eight
asyndeta: *Av TOIVVV evdvpias eTridv^yi, fj.rj ftr) <rd>fj.aT(K vytetav, pr)
Sdgav. /J.T) Svvacneiav, /J.TJ rpvtfrijv, Tro\vre\et<;, fir] ai)pt.K<av Ifiartoiv Tre/M/
SoXa?, pr) -jro\v- reXet? o'ypow, prj oiKiay Xafvrrpas teal Trepupaveh , firjBe
aXXo ...
Mary Bridget O'Brien (Sister.), 1930
Catholic University of America. Eight asyndeta : *Ai> rolwu eidvp.ias imdvp.fi<;l p.
rj xpij/iara, pr) crcbpaTtn vyUtav, pr) Bdgav. prj Bvvacnelav, pi) rpvtf>T)v, pi) T/
307refa? 7ro\vTe\et?, pi) a-t)puccov Iparicov irepiftoXwi, pi) iro\v- reXets aypovt, ...
Catholic University of America, 1930
10
A Greek Grammar to the New Testament, and to the common or ...
... feature in his Epistles; and their absence is the means of increasing their 'force
and spirit in a very sensible degree. Similar asyndela are not wanting, however,
in the other parts of the New Testament. 2. Asyndeta may be resolved into ...
