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Fiction --- Literary semiotics --- Epic literature --- -Semiotics and literature --- Simile --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Semiotics and literature. --- Simile. --- History and criticism. --- Semiotics and literature

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In this innovative study, Stephen Nimis applies the insights of semiotics to the analysis of the epic simile in works by Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Dante, and Milton. Through close structural readings of the similes in these works, Nimis explores the ways texts relate to their narrative traditions and shows how changing cultural contexts produce different ways of conceiving and constructing meaning. He traces these transformations in the epic from the integrated warrior culture of the Iliad to the dissolution of the epic tradition in the cultural world of Milton's Paradise Lost.

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In this innovative study, Stephen Nimis applies the insights of semiotics to the analysis of the epic simile in works by Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Dante, and Milton. Through close structural readings of the similes in these works, Nimis explores the ways texts relate to their narrative traditions and shows how changing cultural contexts produce different ways of conceiving and constructing meaning. He traces these transformations in the epic from the integrated warrior culture of the Iliad to the dissolution of the epic tradition in the cultural world of Milton's Paradise Lost.

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The aim of this book is to make Lucian's 'A true story' accessible to intermediate students of Ancient Greek. The running vocabulary and commentary are meant to provide everything necessary to read each page. Lucian's 'A true story' is a great text for intermediate readers. Its breathless narrative does not involve many complex sentences or constructions; there is some unusual vocabulary and a few departures from Attic Greek, but for the most part it is a straightforward narrative that is fun and interesting by one of antiquity's cleverest authors. In 'A True Story', Lucian parodies accounts of fanciful adventures and travel to incredible places by authors such as Ctesias and Iambulus. The story's combination of mockery and learning makes it an excellent example of the Greek literature of the imperial period.0.

Voyages, Imaginary --- Voyages, Imaginary.

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Greek literature --- Greek language --- Greek language --- Littérature grecque --- Grec (Langue) --- Grec (Langue) --- Study and teaching --- Readers. --- Grammar. --- Etude et enseignement --- Lectures et morceaux choisis --- Grammaire --- Galen.