Vergil And Elegy

Author : Alison Keith,Micah Y. Myers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 462 pages
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Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487547967

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Vergil and Elegy by Alison Keith,Micah Y. Myers Pdf

Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil’s multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil’s interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil’s hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil’s radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet’s wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre.

Author : Alison Keith,Micah Young Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1487547994

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Vergil and Elegy by Alison Keith,Micah Young Myers Pdf

"Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and meters into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover's amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil's early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work. This collection is devoted to an exploration of Vergil's multifaceted relations with elegy. Contributors shed light on Vergil's interactions with the genre and its practitioners across classical, medieval, and early modern periods. The book investigates Vergil's hexameter poetry in relation to contemporary Latin elegy by Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius, and the subsequent reception of Vergil's radical combination of epic with elegy by later Latin and Italian authors. Filling a striking gap in the scholarship, Vergil and Elegy illuminates the famous poet's wide-ranging engagement with the genre of elegy across his oeuvre."--

Author : Sarah L. McCallum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192863003

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Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid by Sarah L. McCallum Pdf

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussion of elegiac experimentation in the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid 1-6 explores the aesthetic and conceptual development of destructive Vergilian amor (passion). The unique emphasis of subsequent chapters on the amatory and funerary elegiac dimensions of crucial episodes in Aeneid 7-12 illuminates the intergeneric character of Vergil's martial maius opus. A detailed examination of the inter- and intratextual strands of pivotal moments in the Aeneid evinces Vergil's intense engagement with literary predecessors and contemporaries, his evolving artistic vision, and his enduring influence on subsequent Roman poets. Each chapter of this volume enhances our understanding of the generic complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters.

Author : Peter J. Heslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192524294

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Propertius, Greek Myth, and Virgil by Peter J. Heslin Pdf

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the references to Greek mythology in Propertius' first book; these passages emerge as strongly intertextual in nature, providing a way for the poet to situate himself with respect to his predecessors, both Greek and Roman. More specifically, myth is also the medium of a sustained polemic with Virgil's Eclogues, published only a few years earlier. Virgil's response can be traced in the Georgics, and subsequently, in his second and third books, Propertius continued to use mythology and its relationship to contemporary events as a vehicle for literary polemic. This volume argues that their competition can be seen as exemplifying a revised model for how the poets within Maecenas' circle interacted and engaged with each other's work - a model based on rivalry rather than ideological adhesion or subversion - while also painting a revealing picture of how Virgil was viewed by a contemporary in the days before his death had canonized his work as an instant classic. In particular, its novel interpretation offers us a new understanding of Propertius, one of the foundational figures in Western love poetry, and how his frequent references to other poets, especially Gallus and Ennius, take on new meanings when interpreted as responses to Virgil's changing career.

Author : George C. Paraskeviotis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527542792

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Vergil’s Eclogues by George C. Paraskeviotis Pdf

Between 42 and 39 BC, Vergil composed the first Latin pastoral collection, entitled Eclogues, and consisting of ten poems in the form in which it has come down to us. Vergil’s Eclogues represent the introduction of a new genre, the pastoral, to Latin literature, and recall the Hellenistic poet Theocritus who invented this genre. The fact that the Roman author inserts into the text elements from other Greek and Latin texts modifying them through innovations and changes (constitutes an attractive field of research. This book shows that Vergil’s dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not only typical of the way in which Latin literature was written in the 1st century BC; rather, it is also a dynamic literary method used to affect and define the character of each Eclogue.

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191615900

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Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison Pdf

S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.

Author : C. George Paraskeviotis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527540944

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Vergil's Eclogues by C. George Paraskeviotis Pdf

Between 42 and 39 BC, Vergil composed the first Latin pastoral collection, entitled Eclogues, and consisting of ten poems in the form in which it has come down to us. Vergilâ (TM)s Eclogues represent the introduction of a new genre, the pastoral, to Latin literature, and recall the Hellenistic poet Theocritus who invented this genre. The fact that the Roman author inserts into the text elements from other Greek and Latin texts modifying them through innovations and changes (constitutes an attractive field of research. This book shows that Vergilâ (TM)s dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not only typical of the way in which Latin literature was written in the 1st century BC; rather, it is also a dynamic literary method used to affect and define the character of each Eclogue.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X002082135

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The Aeneid of Vergil, Books I-VI by Virgil Pdf

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110596182

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Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry by Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.

Author : Jeri Blair Debrohun
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0472112767

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Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy by Jeri Blair Debrohun Pdf

Studies how Propertius transformed the elegiac form, using Callimachean style as a starting point

Author : John D. Bernard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521362528

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Ceremonies of Innocence by John D. Bernard Pdf

A comprehensive study of pastoralism in Edmund Spenser's poetry.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009689362

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Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic by Joseph Farrell Pdf

In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from Hesiod (and perhaps Alexandrian poetics) toward Homer and heroic epic, helps to clarify the development of Vergil's poetic career, which moves from the Callimacheanism of the Eclogues to the full-fledged epic of the Aeneid. Applying to the Georgics the full range of recent scholarly methodology, Farrell's pathbreaking book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Vergil, classical literature, and literary allusion.

Author : Herbert Jennings Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Country life in literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Eclogues of Vergil by Herbert Jennings Rose Pdf

Author : Bill Gladhill,Micah Young Myers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487505776

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Walking Through Elysium by Bill Gladhill,Micah Young Myers Pdf

Walking through Elysium traces Vergil's influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

Author : Archibald A. Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015002968371

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The Origins of Latin Love-elegy by Archibald A. Day Pdf