Virgil A Study In Civilized Poetry
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Author |
: Brooks Otis |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806127821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806127828 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry by : Brooks Otis
In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.
Author |
: Charles Martindale |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 1997-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521498856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521498852 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Virgil by : Charles Martindale
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.
Author |
: Craig Kallendorf |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2007-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191607394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191607398 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Other Virgil by : Craig Kallendorf
The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest, are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear.
Author |
: Scott McGill |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2005-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195175646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195175646 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Virgil Recomposed by : Scott McGill
This is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the mythological and secular Virgilian centos.
Author |
: Christopher Nappa |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2010-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 047202583X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472025831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading After Actium by : Christopher Nappa
Reading after Actium is a study of Vergil's Georgics, a didactic poem ostensibly about farming but in fact a brilliant exercise challenging readers to develop a broader perspective on the basic problems and the dangers of human life. Octavian is treated as one of the poet's students and given the opportunity to learn lessons in handling power, in controlling Rome's vast resources, and in preventing the bloody cycle of civil war from beginning again. Most of all the Georgics asks Octavian to consider what is involved in assuming godlike power over his fellow citizens. Reading after Actium provides an introduction to the history of scholarship surrounding the Georgics and the political questions surrounding Octavian and his career. Nappa gives a book by book analysis of the entire poem, and a conclusion that draws together the themes of the whole. Reading after Actium will appeal to students and critics of Vergil and other Augustan Literature as well as those of didactic poetry and its traditions. Students of Roman history and politics should read this as well. Christopher Nappa is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Minnesota.
Author |
: Virgil |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2002-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603842334 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603842330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Georgics by : Virgil
Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced by twentieth-century poetry--this bold new translation seeks to renew our appreciation of a work often relegated to the pigeonhole of didactic poetry about farming. In doing so, it reveals the Georgics as a remarkable window on Roman conceptions of the natural world and of the place of human life within it--and also conveys a sense of how daring were Virgil's poetics in their day. Footnotes offer a wealth of information on mythology, agriculture, wildlife, geography, and astronomy while highlighting the technical, scientific, ethnographic, and other registers of the poem.
Author |
: Virgil |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0670038032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780670038039 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Aeneid by : Virgil
Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.
Author |
: Catherine Bates |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2010-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521880947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521880947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Epic by : Catherine Bates
This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry in a series of accessible essays.
Author |
: Stephanie Quinn |
Publisher |
: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2000-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610411943 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610411943 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Vergil? by : Stephanie Quinn
Why Vergil? is a collection of forty-three exemplary, classic pieces that demonstrate Vergil's genius or illustrate his enduring influence: a veritable feast for Vergilian scholars, students, and humanists.
Author |
: Paolo Dainotti |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 2024-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783111067353 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3111067351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Style in Latin Poetry by : Paolo Dainotti
Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry - from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality to literary criticism - in recent years, for various reasons, it has not received the attention it deserves. This book, published a generation after Adams and Mayer's seminal 1999 volume, Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, ideally aims to complement and update it on a smaller scale, offering the reader a collection of stimulating papers from international scholars on the style of some of the most significant voices of Latin poetry, from early drama to the Flavian period.