Virgil's Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid

by Kirk Freudenburg

Virgil's Cinematic Art concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes us to envision what is written on the page, treating visual details in ancient epic not as mere scene-setting information or enhancements to any given story, but as cues for performing specific imaginative processes. Through a series of close readings centered primarily on Virgil's Aeneid, Kirk Freudenburg shows that the experiential effects that Virgil puts into play...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197643248
• ISBN13: 9780197643242
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"