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Virgil's Book of bucolics, the ten eclogues translated into English verse : framed by cues for reading aloud and clues for threading texts and themes /

Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Sickle, John
Other Authors: Virgil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Virgil > Translations into English.
Virgil. > Bucolica.
Pastoral poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Pastoral poetry, Latin > Translations into English.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780801899614
0801899613
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Note to the Reader; A User Guide to 'pastoral, ' 'eclogue, ' Eclogues, 'bucolic, ' and Bucolics; Themes from Troubled Times at Rome; Cues for Drama: Mime Revoicing Roman Mythic Frame; Eclogue 1. Contrary Fates Clash: Citizen- Singer Silenced {break with former Roman frame and vatic voice} // Old Slave Free to Sing {new Roman framing myth and vatic voice}; Eclogue 2. New Roman Myth Frames Restless Song in Love {love spell builds thematic reach}; Eclogue 3. Erotic-Vatic Singing Swells Mythic Frame {'all' filled by Jove}
  • Eclogue 4. Full Vatic Song {myth frames 'all': bucolic, georgic, civic- heroic, cosmic ranges}Eclogue 5. Vatic Hymns Cap Roman Myth {new bucolic-georgic (Roman) hero: Daphnis}; Eclogue 6. Freed Singer-Slave Put Down {AMOR // ROMA: cosmic, tragic, vatic reach}; Eclogue 7. Silenced Singer Drawn Back to Frame {Daphnis-Arcadian verses: restrained voice downs vatic push}; Eclogue 8. Framer Resifts {tragic 'love': Arcadian verse // vatic 'love': spells to get back Daphnis}; Eclogue 9. Roman Mythic Frame and Vatic Song Dispelled {Daphnis minus Roman role}
  • Eclogue 10. New- Old Framing Myth: Arcadia {vatic singer's new home: Gallus in for Daphnis as bucolic- tragic hero}Scripts: The Eclogues to Rehearse and Read; First. MELIBOEUS and TITYRUS {exile from old Roman order versus new god at Rome}; Second. FRAMER {CORYDON'S trying erotic- vatic charm}; Third. MENALCAS and DAMOETAS {PALAEMON: erotic-vatic growth to universal frame}; Fourth. FRAMER: SEER-BARD {vatic song of new Roman hero ≈ FATES}; Fifth. MENALCAS and MOPSUS {vatic voices: DAPHNIS up as new god}; Sixth. TITYRUS {vatic Silenus ≈ PHOEBUS}
  • Seventh. MELIBOEUS {DAPHNIS and ARCADIANS: CORYDON-restraint up // THYRSIS-vatic growth downed}Eighth. FRAMER (maker of book) {DAMON down, vatic ALPHESIBOEUS up}; Ninth. LYCIDAS and MOERIS {MENALCAS: DAPHNIS freed from vatic frame}; Tenth. FRAMER (the weaver of the book) {MENALCAS ARCADIAN, bucolic- tragic GALLUS ≈ DAPHNIS}; Clues in Social Memory: Threads from Tragedy and Epos; Oldest Epic Frame: Generic Threads (Homer, Hesiod); Old Threads, New Twists: Cyclops, Phaedrus; New Frames from Old Threads: Hellenistic and Alexandrian; Epos for New Empire: Heroic Myth to Frame New Roman Power.
  • Rome minus Annals and Heroic Origin (Catullus)The Warp and Weft of Varying Motifs: Structure Charted; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.

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