03457nam 22005051c 450 991078764190332120200115203623.01-84966-806-X1-84966-808-610.5040/9781849668064(CKB)2670000000489872(OCoLC)868980063(CaPaEBR)ebrary10800813(MiAaPQ)EBC1561328(WaSeSS)Ind00045084(OCoLC)892340570(UtOrBLW)bpp09255211(EXLCZ)99267000000048987220140929d2012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPastoral inscriptions reading and writing Virgil's eclogues Brian W. BreedLondon Bristol Classical Press 2012.1 online resource (208 p.) Classical literature and society0-7156-3449-6 Includes bibliographical references and index"Virgil's represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the Eclogues include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the Eclogues is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the Eclogues as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Virgil's "Eclogues" represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the "Eclogues" include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the "Eclogues" is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the "Eclogues" as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral traditionClassical literature and society.Pastoral poetry, LatinLiterature & literary studiesPastoral poetry, Latin.871.01Breed Brian W.625863UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910787641903321Pastoral inscriptions1222389UNINA