A Modern Virgilian
Author | : Robert Speaight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Speaight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Craig Kallendorf |
Publisher | : Variorum Collected Studies |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-01-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781138375147 |
The essays in this collection approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading. The first group of essays uses Virgil's place in post-classical culture to raise questions of broad scholarly interest: How, exactly, does modern reception theory challenge traditional notions of literary practice and value? How do the marginal comments of early readers provide insight into their character and mind? How does rhetoric help shape literary criticism? The second group of essays begins from the premise that the material form in which early modern readers encountered this most important of Latin poets played a key role in how they understood what they read. Thus title pages and illustrations help shape interpretation, with the results of that interpretation in turn becoming the comments that early modern readers regularly entered into the margins of their books. The volume concludes with four more specialized studies that show how these larger issues play out in specific neo-Latin works of the early modern period.
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781354538395 |
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Author | : Theodore Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Latin poetry |
ISBN | : |
Virgil has permeated modern culture like no other icon of Western civilization. In the United States, for example, three of his phrases appear on the dollar bill, and his Aeneid was often cited as a model for the nation's westward expansion. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the impact of the Roman poet into the twentieth century, showing how the Aeneid, the Eclogues, and the Georgics supplied the patterns, images, values, and often the very words used in key works of modern literature. Focusing on American and European writing produced between 1914 and 1945--when Virgil figured prominently in works by Auden, Broch, Eliot, Frost, and Gide, and by Tate, Ungaretti, Val�ry, and Wilder--this comparative analysis reveals a major cultural period in a fascinating new light. Ziolkowski argues that after World War I people came to understand Virgil in a new way: exposed to the rhetoric of totalitarian dictators, and having experienced social upheaval and economic disaster, they recognized in his poetry similar stresses and noted in it a dark aspect not received by earlier generations. Exploring a wide range of modern works, the author demonstrates how preferences for Virgil's poems varied significantly among countries and individuals and how these texts provided a mirror in which readers found what they wished: populism or elitism, fascism or democracy, commitment or escapism. In his closing thoughts, Ziolkowski addresses the current decline of classical learning in the United States and encourages us to reclaim Virgil as an invaluable cultural possession.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Chelsea House Publications |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Thirteen critical essays on Virgil and his works.
Author | : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521032742 |
Examines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.
Author | : George Daniel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Virgil |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486113973 |
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
Author | : Craig Kallendorf |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000938352 |
The essays in this collection approach the reception of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from the perspective of two areas at the center of current scholarly work in the humanities: book history and the history of reading. The first group of essays uses Virgil's place in post-classical culture to raise questions of broad scholarly interest: How, exactly, does modern reception theory challenge traditional notions of literary practice and value? How do the marginal comments of early readers provide insight into their character and mind? How does rhetoric help shape literary criticism? The second group of essays begins from the premise that the material form in which early modern readers encountered this most important of Latin poets played a key role in how they understood what they read. Thus title pages and illustrations help shape interpretation, with the results of that interpretation in turn becoming the comments that early modern readers regularly entered into the margins of their books. The volume concludes with four more specialized studies that show how these larger issues play out in specific neo-Latin works of the early modern period.
Author | : Charles Martindale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1997-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521498852 |
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.