The rhetoric of imitation
Subtitle: genre and poetic memory in Virgil and other Latin poets
By: Gian Biagio Conte ; edited and with a foreword by Charles Segal.
Contributors: Segal, Charles, 1936-; Conte, Gian Biagio, 1941-
Series: Cornell studies in classical philology ;; v. 44
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell Univ Pr
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Virgil.; Virgil -- Technique.; Latin poetry -- History and criticism.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.; Imitation in literature.; Memory in literature.; Rhetoric, Ancient.; Rome -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Italian.
Contains the larger part of Conte's 2 volumes: Memoria dei poeti e sistema letterario and 11 genere e i suoi confini.