Chapter IV: Poeta et Historiographus: The Example of Lucan

Mark Chinca

From History, Fiction, Verisimilitude: Studies in the Poetics of Gottfried’s Tristan (1993), pp. 61-85, doi:10.59860/td.c37eb3f

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Mark Chinca

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Abstract.  Patterns in the medieval reception of the Pharsalia; Fiction and the supernatural: the poeta-vates complex; Fiction and diction: the poet as colourist.

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