Literary Laughter in Augustan Poetry: Vergil, Horace, and Ovid

This dissertation examines literary laughter in Latin poetry and, specifically, the ways in which textually-witnessed laughter functions as a guide to reader response and as a genre marker in select Vergilian, Horatian, and Ovidian poems. The introduction first describes the Latin vocabulary o...

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Main Author: Dance, Caleb
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D81R6NP1