Virgil S Experience

Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584558

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Virgil's Experience by Richard Jenkyns Pdf

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.

Author : Yann Martel
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780670084517

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Beatrice And Virgil [may-10] by Yann Martel Pdf

When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey--named Beatrice and Virgil--and the epic journey they undertake together.

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486113975

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Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

Author : Leif Enger
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802146687

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Virgil Wander by Leif Enger Pdf

A man seeks to rediscover his broken Midwestern community in a novel that “brims with grace and quirky charm” by the author of Peace Like a River (Bookpage). Movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Though Virgil survives, his language and memory are altered. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together the past. He is helped by a cast of curious locals—from a stranger investigating the mystery of his disappeared son, to the vanished man’s enchanting wife, to a local journalist who is Virgil’s oldest friend. Into this community returns a shimmering prodigal son who may hold the key to reviving their town. Leif Enger conjures a remarkable portrait of a region and its residents, who, for reasons of choice or circumstance, never made it out of their defunct industrial district. Carried aloft by quotidian pleasures including movies, fishing, necking in parked cars, playing baseball and falling in love, Virgil Wander is a journey into the heart of America’s Upper Midwest.

Author : Fulani Shawnee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664186057

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Vijay's Catalogue by Fulani Shawnee Pdf

Please listen carefully cause you could miss something funny charming or shocking, now when the books was created. I had to use a little bit of gamma from hulk's energy haha. Seriously though my focus had to start in public while I was thinking about my own issues problems and secrets. Also things that I cannot change will also be factor in fictional dialogue I created to transform my viewers into Steve job perfectionist with point of view that is priceless and too priceless to share with you. Now listen to my ignorance with belligerence attached to book in poem form.

Author : Fulani Shawnee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664186019

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Truth Be Told by Fulani Shawnee Pdf

There is list on chain events that plays out in my head when I'm dreaming Wondering lost or confused like fortune telling I can see the future and what It would look like if I stepped into different lifestyle with my famous superstar swag and confidence. I wasn't always this bold like my poem book I just throwing them all on paperwork writing new visions like Tylor Perry can dream like no one's amagines.

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521498856

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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil by Charles Martindale Pdf

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.

Author : Howard Felperin
Publisher : Author House
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781491878194

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Virgil?s Aeneid in Modern Verse by Howard Felperin Pdf

With its epic models, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid ranks among the greatest poems, not only of classical antiquity, but of all time. It tells the story of Aeneas, who leads a band of survivors from fallen Troy through wandering and war to found the city that will become imperial Rome. Fully equal to Homer in narrative sweep, dramatic power, and lyric intensity, Virgil's epic outshines its models in the passion and compassion with which its characters, even its hero's formidable opponents, are delineated: Dido, the African queen and femme fatale who would hold him back from his mission; and Turnus, the proud Italian prince he must overcome--ultimately in single combat--to fulfill it. Even the gods above are all too human. A fairy-tale? Of course; but the grandest fairy-tale of western culture, whose later literature it has fundamentally shaped. Not surprisingly, few works have been so often--or so inadequately--translated. It's not just a matter of classical Latin into modern English; in itself, that's not so hard. It's the 'aura' of the great original: its classical flavour, cultural significance, and stately poetic style have never been, perhaps never can be, captured. Yet that is what this translation sets out to do. It begins from our side of the classics, from the western literature the poem has so deeply influenced, and reflects the narrative fluency, dazzling lyricism, and distinctive dignity of Virgil's poem in a fresh and unstilted blank verse resonant with English and American tradition. The result is the most readable version ever. The problems and principles such a project involves are aired in an introduction that illuminates Virgil's great work as never before. Enjoy!

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1633
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020570421

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Virgils Eclogues, with His Booke De Apibus, Translated Grammatically and Also According to the Proprietie of Our English Tongue by J. Brinsley by Virgil Pdf

Author : Andrea Cucchiarelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192888778

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A Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues by Andrea Cucchiarelli Pdf

Virgil's Eclogues are a fundamental text of Western literature that served as a model for the nascent poetry of the Augustan and later of the Imperial Age. Inspired by the bucolic poetry of Theocritus, the work uses the apparent simplicity of rural settings to explore complex elements of poetic, literary, philosophical, and even figurative culture, and to express the drama of civil war and expropriations. In this commentary, accompanied by a detailed introduction, Andrea Cucchiarelli analyses the Eclogues in depth, establishing comparisons with both Greek and Roman poetic models, with philosophical texts, and with significant later texts from the Roman poetic tradition. The commentary is the first to offer a systematic account of the poem in its historical context, between the end of the Republic and the Age of Augustus: particular attention is also paid to the language of the figurative arts, which for Roman readers constituted an important complement to literary knowledge of myths and stories. The volume offers the reader a reliable and concise interpretation of the text, which is systematically lemmatized and annotated throughout; each eclogue is additionally accompanied by an introductory overview and a detailed bibliography to direct further reading.

Author : Wendell V. Clausen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110963700

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Virgil's Aeneid by Wendell V. Clausen Pdf

The volumes published in the series "Beiträge zur Altertumskunde" comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.

Author : Edan Dekel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136653797

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Virgil's Homeric Lens by Edan Dekel Pdf

Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various ways over the centuries, this neat dichotomy has generally diminished the complexity and resonance of the connection between the two canonical epic poets. This work offers an alternate approach in which Virgil uses the transformative power of the Odyssey as a precise filter through which to read the Iliadic experience. By examining the ways in which Virgil bases his own epic project on the dynamic interaction between the two Homeric poems themselves, Edan Dekel proposes a system in which the Aeneid uses the Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences. The traditional view of the Homeric poems as static sources for the construction of distinct "Odyssean" and "Iliadic" halves of the Aeneid is supplanted by an analysis which emphasizes the active and persistent influence of the Odyssey as a guide to processing the major thematic concerns of the Iliad and exploring the multiple aftermaths of the Trojan war.

Author : Paul Fleischman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062283689

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Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman Pdf

ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads. Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country. Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway. The book's many tributaries—from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico—are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One. "The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains." —Christian Science Monitor And don’t miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!

Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139433518

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Virgil and the Augustan Reception by Richard F. Thomas Pdf

This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.

Author : Francis Cairns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521353588

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Virgil's Augustan Epic by Francis Cairns Pdf

An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them.