%0 Journal Article
%T Narrative self-consciousness in Virgil¡¯s Aeneid 3
%A Helen Gasti
%J Dictynna : Revue de Po¨¦tique Latine
%D 2010
%I Universit¨¦ Lille-3
%X In this paper I intend to examine some instances of narrative and poetic self-consciousness in Aeneid 3 as manifested in the rich textures and inter/intratextualities of its beginning and end. First I discuss the devices used to mark the beginning of the narrative in Book 3 (sailing imagery ¨C key motifs of proems ¨C temporal punctuation) and then I propose a systematic analysis of the end which is clearly articulated and adds to the sense of completion and closure. In this interpretive framework I suggest a new reading of digressum (3.715), fata renarrabat and cursusque docebat (3.717).
%K metapoetics
%K voyaging and poetry
%K self-reflexive images
%K beginnings and closures
%U http://dictynna.revues.org/348