Preposterous Virgil

Author : Juan Christian Pellicer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350198234

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Preposterous Virgil by Juan Christian Pellicer Pdf

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil's texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil's works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil's texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.

Author : Juan Christian Pellicer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350198227

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Preposterous Virgil by Juan Christian Pellicer Pdf

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil's texts. Through four case studies, bookended by wide-ranging introductory and concluding chapters, this book shows how interpreting the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid through modern responses can serve to focus on aspects of Virgil that would otherwise be differently perceived or else escape notice altogether. Juan Christian Pellicer probes our perceptions of the three Virgilian genres (pastoral, georgic, and epic) and analyzes the ways in which modern reconfigurations of these genres can inform our readings of Virgil's works, as well as help us realize how our own ideas about Virgil reflect the literary receptions through which we approach his texts. This book offers a practical demonstration of classical reception and its value as a critical procedure. By testing the value of modern responses to Virgil as means by which to read his texts, Pellicer critically examines a central tenet of reception studies of classical authors, namely that our understanding of their work can benefit from the receptions through which we perceive them. The reader will find Virgil's texts reconfigured in challenging new ways and will find new appreciations of the classical traditions that inform key texts in the English canon.

Author : James Bradley Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781350226418

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HoneyVoiced by James Bradley Wells Pdf

This new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely as possible. Pindar's poetry is synonymous with difficulty for scholars and students of classical studies. His syntax stretches the limits of ancient Greek, while his allusions to mythology and other poetic texts assume an audience that knows more than we now possibly can, given the fragmentary nature of textual and material culture records for ancient Greece. It includes an authoritative introduction, both to the poet and his art and to ancient athletics, alongside brief orientations to the historical context and mythological content of each victory song. The inclusion of a glossary supplies additional mythological and historical information necessary to understanding Pindar's poetry for those coming to the works for the first time. His is the largest body of textual remains that exists for ancient Greece between Homer (conventionally dated to 750 BCE) and the Classical Period (480–323 BCE), and constitutes a rich resource for politics, history, religion, and social practices.

Author : Daniel Orrells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350407794

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Antiquity in Print by Daniel Orrells Pdf

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of the rise of antiquarianism in the 18th century, Orrells shows how this period of cultural progression was important for the invention of classical studies. In particular, the main focus of this book is on the visionary experimentalism of antiquarian book production, especially in relation to the contentious nature of ancient texts. With the explosion of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, eighteenth-century intellectuals, antiquarians and artists such as Giambattista Vico, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Comte de Caylus, James Stuart, Julien-David Leroy, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville all became interested in how printed engravings of ancient art and archaeology could visualize a historical narrative. These figures theorized the relationship between ancient text and ancient material and visual culture - theorizations which would pave the way to foundational questions at the heart of the discipline of classical studies and neoclassical aesthetics.

Author : John Talbot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350232518

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The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination by John Talbot Pdf

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and intricacy of the alcaic stanza (Tennyson called it 'the grandest of all measures') and their inventive responses to the ancient alcaic have generated remarkable innovations in the rhythms, sounds and shapes of modern poetry. This is the first book-length study of this neglected strand of English literary history and classical reception. Attending closely to the rhythm and texture of their verses, John Talbot reveals surprising connections between English poets across five centuries, among them Mary Shelley, Milton, Marvell, Tennyson, Edward FitzGerald, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden and Donald Hall. He gives special attention to a flourishing of English alcaics during the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and what it suggests about the changing place of classics and poetic form in contemporary culture.

Author : Anthony Tommasini
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780698150133

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The Indispensable Composers by Anthony Tommasini Pdf

An exploration into the question of greatness from the Chief Classical Music Critic of the New York Times When he began to listen to the great works of classical music as a child, Anthony Tommasini had many questions. Why did a particular piece move him? How did the music work? Over time, he realized that his passion for this music was not enough. He needed to understand it. Take Bach, for starters. Who was he? How does one account for his music and its unshakeable hold on us today? As a critic, Tommasini has devoted particular attention to living composers and overlooked repertory. But, like all classical music lovers, the canon has remained central for him. In 2011, in his role as the Chief Classical Music Critic for the New York Times, he wrote a popular series in which he somewhat cheekily set out to determine the all-time top ten composers. Inviting input from readers, Tommasini wrestled with questions of greatness. Readers joined the exercise in droves. Some railed against classical music’s obsession with greatness but then raged when Mahler was left off the final list. This intellectual game reminded them why they loved music in the first place. Now in THE INDISPENSABLE COMPOSERS, Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon--and what greatness really means in classical music. What does it mean to be canonical now? Who gets to say? And do we have enough perspective on the 20th century to even begin assessing it? To make his case, Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time. Because he has spent his life contemplating these titans, Tommasini shares impressions from performances he has heard or given or moments when his own biography proves revealing. As he argues for his particular pantheon of indispensable composers, Anthony Tommasini provides a masterclass in what to listen for and how to understand what music does to us.

Author : Sue Edney,Tess Somervell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781000779189

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Georgic Literature and the Environment by Sue Edney,Tess Somervell Pdf

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together, its chapters demonstrate that georgic—a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil’s Georgics and Hesiod’s Works and Days—has been reworked by writers throughout modern and early modern English-language literary history as a way of thinking about humans’ relationships with the environment. The book is divided into three sections: Defining Georgic, Managing Nature and Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene. It centres the georgic genre in the ecocritical conversation, giving it equal prominence with pastoral, elegy and lyric as an example of ‘nature writing’ that can speak to urgent environmental questions throughout literary history and up to the present day. It provides an overview of the myriad ways georgic has been reworked in order to address human relationships with the environment, through focused case studies on individual texts and authors, including James Grainger, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Judith Wright and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. This is a much-needed volume for literary critics, academics and students engaged in ecocritical studies, environmental humanities and literature, addressing a significantly overlooked environmental literary genre.

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009022415

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A History of English Georgic Writing by Paddy Bullard Pdf

The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Literature
ISBN : MSU:31293011081845

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The Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virgil,V. R. Osborn,Levi Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822007202872

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The works of P. Virgillus Maro by Virgil,V. R. Osborn,Levi Hart Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Virgil
ISBN : UOM:39015066286538

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Vergilian Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Zmuda
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476617817

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The Five Sedgwicks by Michael Zmuda Pdf

Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville to silent film, through the studio era and into the Golden Age of television. By the late 1920s the Sedgwick siblings were well-known motion picture personalities: Edward was satirized by actor Harry Gribbon as an enthusiastic comedy director in King Vidor's 1928 silent comedy hit Show People; Josie was a star of Western films and was presented the honorific title of "Queen of the Roundup"; Universal Films promoted Eileen as their "Queen of the Serial." This book details the family's extensive contributions to the entertainment industry.

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015001174385

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What is Happening to Interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid? by Gordon Williams Pdf

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900056921

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The Works by Virgil Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030759146

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Romance literature pamphlets by Anonim Pdf