‘Theory and History of Literature
[Edited by Wiad Godrich and Jochen Schlte-Sanse
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Tevetan Todor Intraduction to Pots,
Hans Robert Juss Tower an Aesth of Reception
Hans Robert aus
‘Aesthetic Experion and Literary Hermeneutics
Peter Barger Theory the Ast Garde
‘VadiiePropp Theory and History of Fale
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snd Wale Martin
‘The Yale Cites; Dronstracion in Amerie
Paul de Man Blinds and insight
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‘Mikhail Bakhtin Problems of Destress
Esch Auerbach
‘Stems fom the Doma of Exrapen Literature
Scenes from the Drama__
of European Literature
Erich Auerbach
Foreword by Paolo Valesio
‘Theory and History of Literature, Volume 9
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‘University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis“FIGURA”
1. From Terence to Quintilon
Originally fara, from the same sem a fngere, fe
es fet, and fig, meant "plas form Tt ea
ceca iin Tren, wo in Bumache 7)
Spy data young pil hn a nove fire ons Cumac
‘Gutomed fom of face”). The following fragment of
Fecaviss (701, im Ridbec, Seaen. Homan. Poet
Propo, i110) probably dats trom about the exe
Berboricom fst bins nose opel
‘ows fig ecm» 3
(Zo ose spear she presented an cand plagne
Fadioned in saccutomed shape)
of like ending, from the wupine (Ernout Meillet,
Dictionnaire dymologique de le langue ltine, 46)
‘An attempt has ‘been made (StoleSchmals, LatGramm, 5h edition, 219) to explain this as an ae
similation to effigies: in any case this peculiar forma
ton express something living and dynamic, incom
plete and playfol, and ft equally certain that the
‘word had graceful sound ‘which faicinated. many
poets Perhaps it no more than am acident that i
‘ur two oldest examples figura occurs in combination
ith ove; but even if setdentn il sgn, for
te nn ofthe new manfitation the ning
et ofthe permanent rns through the whole hiory
“Figwe” 18
when he says that ip buying slaves one should con
Tider not only the figura but also the qualities—in
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