Sound devices, such as alliteration, consonance, and end rhymes, are typically associated with the realm of poetic composition. Their purposes are manifold: to create a specific rhythm or tone, to draw attention to specific top-ics, to establish connections among key words, to craft emphatic and memora-ble texts. While these literary devices are indeed most often found in poetry, texts categorised as “technical” can also feature such literary elements. In this talk, I will present case studies from a diverse corpus of technical texts dating to the late fourth-second century BCE, showing how sound is skilfully em-ployed in combination with other text-structuring devices to obtain a wide range of (literary) effects.
Date: 21 January 2025
Time: 18:00