Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary DiscourseNow in Paper! As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In this book, author Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated Romans. Syed analyzes Roman pedagogy and reading practices as well as ancient beliefs about the powerful influence of poetry. Her study considers these cultural components together with the aspects of identity that define the Aeneid’s characters. By doing so, Syed shows how Vergil’s ancient audiences saw themselves—their experiences, goals, and values—reflected in the poem and guided by it. In particular, Syed’s treatment of gender and ethnicity brings to light the key role of Vergil’s poem in the formation of Romanness. |
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... characters of the nar- rative . Unlike other Vergil scholars I do not use the term subjectivity to dis- cuss the poet's sympathies with his fictional characters or his outlook on the world . Instead I draw on various overlapping ...
... characters . We have already seen that this identity is constructed as male . In this chapter I will explore how gender is a determining factor in the poem's presentation of a character's emotional life . In other words , it is not only ...
... characters that genders the reader's subject position as male ; the poem also differentiates between male and female characters in the way they experience emotions and in the way their emotions define them as characters . We will see ...
Contents
The Aeneid and Roman Identity | 11 |
Poetry Power and the Emotions | 33 |
The Gaze | 53 |
Copyright | |
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