Latin Biography: notes around the literary genre
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https://doi.org/10.13136/2284-2667/1213Keywords:
latin biography, biografic writing, narrative frame, selection principle, anecdoteAbstract
The paper aims to provide interpretative notes on Latin biography as a literary genre: after a survey of the main literary sources attesting the independence of the biographical genre from the historiographical one, methodological passages on structure, style and contents of the enarrare vitas will be selected and discussed in order to highlight common features and recurring traits of such a hybrid and multiform genre. The analysis will focus on elements like narrative framework, selection of narrative material, text structure and relations with the encomiastic genre
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2023-05-16
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