Virgil /
"Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation. Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781444327458 1444327453 9781444327465 1444327461 9781444351545 1444351540 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Generalizing about Virgil: Dialogue, wisdom, mission ; Of codes and codices ; Code of readership ; Poetic craft ; Thematic contours ; Poetic models ; Virgil's allusive (and imitative) style ; Telling themes: Virgil and story
- 2: Publius Vergilius Maro: A preamble ; The proto-Augustan milieu ; The Augustan context ; Patronage: Pollio, Maecenas, and Augustus
- 3: Eclogue dialogues ; L'arte allusiva: Virgil's imitative style ; Poetic pairings ; Eclogues 1 and 9 ; Eclogues 2 and 8 ; Eclogues 3 and 7.