Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

• Autore: Wallace Andrew
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 873.01
• Soggetto topico: Education - History - 16th century - England; Education - History - 17th century - England; Education; Languages & Literatures; Social Sciences; Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures; History of Education
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Virgil's schooldays ; Master, scholar, schoolbook -- The poet as schoolbook. 'I must read Virgil' ; 'Amo magistrum, I love the maister' ; The place of commentary and the works of Amor -- Pastoral and the painful schoolmaster. Echo, eclogue, dialogue ; 'The schoolemaister of Bacchus' ; 'Now thou art gone, now thou art gone' -- Placement and pedagogy in the Georgics. 'The rurall part of Virgil' ; Virgil's schoolroom ; 'Some boks have resistit, standeth stil' ; Print and pedagogy -- Forgetting epic. After Troy ; Virgil's wild goose ; Epic struggles ; 'A palmer with a rodde' -- Conclusion : 'Virgilius poëtarum doctissimus'.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an original theorist of the nature and mechanics of instruction.
• Altri titoli varianti: Virgil's schoolboys: the poetics of pedagogy in Renaissance England; Classical presences
• Titolo autorizzato: Virgil's Schoolboys: The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England
• ISBN: 0-19-159556-X; 0-19-959124-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213128503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.