Camilla's traces: Movement as an analytical key to literary history

• Published in: Orbis litterarum Vol. 79; no. 5; pp. 405 - 422
• Main Authors: Contzen, Eva, Kukkonen, Karin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2024
• Subjects: epic; Literary history; movement; novel; Vergil

In this article, we develop a framework for the analysis of ‘movement’ in literary texts. We focus on characters, translation and transmission, thereby going beyond, on the one hand, a stylistic analysis of individual passages, and, on the other hand, the linear enchainment of scenes and summaries u...