The Cambridge Companion to VirgilCharles Martindale 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. |
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... present; moreover our own views of classical works have been affectedby later responses and constructed as a further linkinthechain ofreceptions. In the historicised version of receptiontheory associated with theConstance school in ...
... present; moreover our own views of classical works have been affectedby later responses and constructed as a further linkinthechain ofreceptions. In the historicised version of receptiontheory associated with theConstance school in ...
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... present in actsof speech, of writing, of pictorial encoding inside any given language. Translation betweendifferent languages isaparticular applicationof a configurationandmodel fundamentalto human speech evenwhere itis monoglot.26 The ...
... present in actsof speech, of writing, of pictorial encoding inside any given language. Translation betweendifferent languages isaparticular applicationof a configurationandmodel fundamentalto human speech evenwhere itis monoglot.26 The ...
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... present the period between the Two World Wars as a renewedaetas Virgiliana, withVirgilas'a prophetof modernity'32 able to providesuccour forthe contemporary mal de siècie, thewidespread sense of disintegration andfracture; but hesees us ...
... present the period between the Two World Wars as a renewedaetas Virgiliana, withVirgilas'a prophetof modernity'32 able to providesuccour forthe contemporary mal de siècie, thewidespread sense of disintegration andfracture; but hesees us ...
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... present himselfas the author of the poem. In apoem about Fame this is asignificant thing to do: Chaucer introduces the idea thatVirgil is thepoet tobeimitated by thosewhoare eager to press theirownclaims foraplace in the House of Fame ...
... present himselfas the author of the poem. In apoem about Fame this is asignificant thing to do: Chaucer introduces the idea thatVirgil is thepoet tobeimitated by thosewhoare eager to press theirownclaims foraplace in the House of Fame ...
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... presents as having been composed 'divers yeares'(p. 532) before. In the later seventeenth century followers of Sandys develop a selfconscious tradition of royalist versions ofVirgil. Theramshackle translation by the ...
... presents as having been composed 'divers yeares'(p. 532) before. In the later seventeenth century followers of Sandys develop a selfconscious tradition of royalist versions ofVirgil. Theramshackle translation by the ...
Contents
COLIN BURROW 3 Modern receptions andtheirinterpretative implications | |
Aspects of Virgils reception in antiquity | |
The Virgil commentaryof Servius | |
Virgil in | |
the Eclogues | |
value and meaning in the Georgics | |
religious and philosophical ideas | |
The Virgilian intertext | |
Virgils style | |
Virgilian narrative | |
b Ecphrasis | |
Approaching characterisation in Virgil | |
sexuality and gender in Virgils poetry | |
Virgil | |
Virgilian epic | |
the Book of Virgil | |
Virgils poetry incontemporary context | |
Rome and its traditions | |
the death of Virgil | |
Index | |
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