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Titolo: | The Cambridge companion to Virgil / / edited by Charles Martindale [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 873/.01 |
Soggetto topico: | Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism |
Agriculture in literature | |
Country life in literature | |
Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism | |
Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism | |
Soggetto geografico: | Rome In literature |
Persona (resp. second.): | MartindaleCharles |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
Nota di contenuto: | ; Introduction : "the classic of all Europe" / Charles Martindale -- Virgil in English translation / Colin Burrow -- Modern receptions and their interpretative implications / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity / R.J. Tarrant -- The Virgil commentary of Servius / Don Fowler -- Virgils, from Dante to Milton / Colin Burrow -- Virgil in art / M.J.H. Liversidge -- Green politics : the Eclogues / Charles Martindale -- Virgilian didaxis : value and meaning in the Georgics / William Batstone -- Virgilian epic / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Closure : the Book of Virgil / Elena Theodorakopoulos -- Poetry and power : Virgil's poetry in contemporary context / R.J. Tarrant -- Rome and its traditions / James E.G. Zetzel -- Virgil and the cosmos : religious and philosophical ideas / Susanna Morton Braund -- The Virgilian intertext / Joseph Farrell -- Virgil's style / James J. O'Hara -- Virgilian narrative : story-telling / Don Fowler -- Virgilian narrative : ecphrasis / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Approaching characterisation in Virgil / Andrew Laird -- Sons and lovers : sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry / Ellen Oliensis -- Virgil and tragedy / Philip Hardie -- Envoi : the death of Virgil / Fiona Cox. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Cambridge companion to Virgil |
ISBN: | 1-107-48045-0 |
1-107-48479-0 | |
1-139-00007-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996205072203316 |
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