Litanic verse is based on different syntactic and rhetorical devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora, and epiphora. Its Italian variants are not to be seen as a mere convention of versification, but as a multifactorial phenomenon, which involves semantic and performative aspects as well. The variants reveal their different faces within various periods, beginning with the Duecento. This book analyzes Italian poetry up until the first decades of the twentieth century, together with certain musical pieces that are closely related to the history of literature. The monograph is the fourth of five volumes devoted to the emergence and development of litanic verse in the literature of European regions.
- ISBN10 3631761740
- ISBN13 9783631761748
- Publish Date 6 November 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
- Format eBook
- Pages 408
- Language English