2022/01/01 by Gian Biagio Conte · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Historical and Literary Analyses #Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition #Linguistics and language evolution
paper · doi:10.25162/hermes-2022-0022
openalex publication_date 2022/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
In the Aeneid, Virgil sets out to achieve a new sublime style, paradoxically steeped in the common parlance. He aims for the spontaneity of everyday language to win readers’ involvement, while elaborating a discourse both expressively taut and stylistically marked, that avoids a register too colloquial or prosaic. Above all, he tirelessly deploys an array of subtle strategies – below the threshold of perception – that defamiliarize language in order to elevate its style. The present paper furnishes a selection of case studies.