Inconsistency in Roman Epic

O'Hara, James J.

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“…Bowie (2008) and Horsfall (2008) recognize many of the same moments as jarring, but neither discuss the connection between intense emotion and narratorial inconsistency. On inconsistency and reading Latin epic, see also O'Hara (2007). There is as ever much secondary literature on every aspect of Virgil.…”

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Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2

Lovatt¹

2020

Metalepsis

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This chapter investigates the emotional function of metalepsis by considering the case of Virgil, Aeneid 2, a book which combines intense emotion with great narrative complexity. Analysing multiple metaleptic features in the book, it offers a model for reading emotional intensity in terms of immersion and alienation, and concludes that metalepsis may paradoxically both alienate readers and intensify their emotional engagement. The chapter begins by exploring the layered first-person narratives produced by Aeneas and Sinon, both of whom use their grief to establish authority and create a positive reception. It argues that the constant interplay between the levels of the external narrator and these two internal ones creates dissonances for readers, but ultimately intensifies the emotional response of the various levels of audience, both internal (Dido) and external. The chapter then demonstrates that moments of narrative transition are often characterized both by emotional intensity and by lack of narrative realism, opening up the potential for metalepsis by means such as anachronism and simile. A study of the deaths of Polites and Priam shows how puns, intertextual references, and connections to the contemporary world of author and audience can all serve to enhance immediacy even when one might expect them to create distance. Finally, the chapter asks in what sense one can really say with Genette that Virgil ‘has Dido die’, making the case that the death of Dido, too, is a metaleptic moment with paradoxical emotional effects.

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Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2

Lovatt¹

2020

Metalepsis

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“…In this model, the spherical RR is illuminated by a collimated optical beam, with a uniform intensity, from a distant source along the OA. The optical beam is refracted at 23 , N-LASF9 (n = 1.85) 24 , and S-LAH79 (n = 2.00) 25 materials.…”

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Spherical transceivers for ultrafast optical wireless communications

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Optical wireless communications (OWC) offers the potential for high-speed and mobile operation in indoor networks. Such OWC systems often employ a fixed transmitter grid and mobile transceivers, with the mobile transceivers carrying out bi-directional communication via active downlinks (ideally with high-speed signal detection) and passive uplinks (ideally with broad angular retroreflection and high-speed modulation). It can be challenging to integrate all of these bidirectional communication capabilities within the mobile transceivers, however, as there is a simultaneous desire for compact packaging. With this in mind, the work presented here introduces a new form of transceiver for bi-directional OWC systems. The transceiver incorporates radial photoconductive switches (for high-speed signal detection) and a spherical retro-modulator (for broad angular retroreflection and high-speed all-optical modulation). All-optical retromodulation are investigated by way of theoretical models and experimental testing, for spherical retro-modulators comprised of three glasses, N-BK7, N-LASF9, and S-LAH79, having differing levels of refraction and nonlinearity. It is found that the spherical retro-modulator comprised of S-LAH79, with a refractive index of n ≈ 2 and a Kerr nonlinear index of n 2 ≈ (1.8 ± 0.1) × 10-15 cm 2 /W, yields both broad angular retroreflection (over a solid angle of 2π steradians) and ultrafast modulation (over a duration of 120 fs). Such transceivers can become important elements for all-optical implementations in future bi-directional OWC systems.

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“… 91 Ovid's Phaethon episode is also invested in inconsistency: Zissos and Gildenhard 1999: 39–42, O'Hara 2007: 114–15.…”

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Materiam superabat opus: Lucretius Metamorphosed

Schiesaro¹

2014

J. Rom. Stud.

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Ovid's narrative of Phaethon's failed attempt prematurely to emulate his father in his unique expertise can be read as a reflection on the virtues and limits of Lucretius' philosophical poetry. The paper suggests that, while he gives much credit to the De Rerum Natura's literary quality and its striving for the sublime, Ovid also critiques the hubristic connotations of Lucretius' rejection of divine authority and agency from the workings of nature. The second part of the article explores how this particular version of the myth touches upon issues of poetic authority, political positioning, and Oedipal competition. Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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Inconsistency in Roman Epic

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Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2

Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2

Spherical transceivers for ultrafast optical wireless communications

Materiam superabat opus: Lucretius Metamorphosed

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