Modes of reporting speech in Latin fictional narrative

The thesis reviews the techniques employed by Latin authors up to the second century A.D. to report the spoken words and articulated thoughts of their characters. The study is principally devoted to continuous narratives of a fictitious kind: epic, 'epyllia' and prose fiction, although som...

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Main Author: Laird, Andrew
Published: University of Oxford 1992
Subjects:
800
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310347