LEADER 03485nam 22006131c 450 001 9910787790103321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-3966-4 010 $a1-4725-2109-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472539663 035 $a(CKB)2670000000430315 035 $a(EBL)1426790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001153885 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11758441 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153885 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11154480 035 $a(PQKB)10116756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1426790 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10771834 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL603468 035 $a(OCoLC)861538607 035 $a(OCoLC)868953105 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255200 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000430315 100 $a20140929d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBucolic ecology $eVirgil's eclogues and the environmental literary tradition $fTimothy Saunders 210 1$aLondon $cBloomsbury $d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7156-3617-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aCatasterisms -- Cosmology -- Geography -- Topography -- Landscape -- Physics. 330 $a"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity. "--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $aBeginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $2Literary studies: classical, early & medieval 606 $aPastoral poetry, Latin 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aPastoral poetry, Latin. 676 $a871.01 700 $aSaunders$b Timothy$f1974-$01501907 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787790103321 996 $aBucolic ecology$93729335 997 $aUNINA