Virgil S Gaze

Author : J. D. Reed
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691170916

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Virgil's Gaze by J. D. Reed Pdf

Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly--if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppositions to other ethnic identities--especially Trojan, Carthaginian, Italian, and Greek--oppositions that shift with the shifting perspective of the narrative. Roman identity emerges as multivalent and constantly changing rather than unitary and stable. The Roman self that the poem gives us is capacious--adaptable to a universal nationality, potentially an imperial force--but empty at its heart. However, the incongruities that produce this emptiness are also what make the Aeneid endlessly readable, since they forestall a single perspective and a single notion of the Roman. Focusing on questions of narratology, intertextuality, and ideology, Virgil's Gaze offers new readings of such major episodes as the fall of Troy, the pageant of heroes in the underworld, the death of Turnus, and the disconcertingly sensual descriptions of the slain Euryalus, Pallas, and Camilla. While advancing a highly original argument, Reed's wide-ranging study also serves as an ideal introduction to the poetics and principal themes of the Aeneid.

Author : Helen Lovatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107276536

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The Epic Gaze by Helen Lovatt Pdf

The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the gods above and the women on the sidelines. This stimulating, ambitious study investigates the theme of vision in Greek and Latin epic from Homer to Nonnus, bringing the edges of epic into dialogue with celebrated moments (the visual confrontation of Hector and Achilles, the failure of Turnus' gaze), revealing epic as massive assertion of authority and fractured representation. Helen Lovatt demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. She discusses mortals appropriating the divine gaze, prophets as both penetrative viewers and rape victims, explores the divine authority of epic ecphrasis, and exposes the way that heroic bodies are fragmented and fetishised.

Author : Julia Hell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226588193

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The Conquest of Ruins by Julia Hell Pdf

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.

Author : Howard Felperin
Publisher : Author House
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : John Jamieson (D.D., of Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900061133

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... To which is Prefixed, a Dissertation of the Origin of the Scottish Language by John Jamieson (D.D., of Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691096775

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Roman Eyes by Jaś Elsner Pdf

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : James Miller
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889209275

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Dante & the Unorthodox by James Miller Pdf

During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani.

Author : Riggs Alden Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292756205

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The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid by Riggs Alden Smith Pdf

One of the masterpieces of Latin and, indeed, world literature, Virgil's Aeneid was written during the Augustan "renaissance" of architecture, art, and literature that redefined the Roman world in the early years of the empire. This period was marked by a transition from the use of rhetoric as a means of public persuasion to the use of images to display imperial power. Taking a fresh approach to Virgil's epic poem, Riggs Alden Smith argues that the Aeneid fundamentally participates in the Augustan shift from rhetoric to imagery because it gives primacy to vision over speech as the principal means of gathering and conveying information as it recounts the heroic adventures of Aeneas, the legendary founder of Rome. Working from the theories of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Smith characterizes Aeneas as a voyant-visible, a person who both sees and is seen and who approaches the world through the faculty of vision. Engaging in close readings of key episodes throughout the poem, Smith shows how Aeneas repeatedly acts on what he sees rather than what he hears. Smith views Aeneas' final act of slaying Turnus, a character associated with the power of oratory, as the victory of vision over rhetoric, a triumph that reflects the ascendancy of visual symbols within Augustan society. Smith's new interpretation of the predominance of vision in the Aeneid makes it plain that Virgil's epic contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of Imperial Rome.

Author : John Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z225015402

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ... to which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language: by John Jamieson ... by John Jamieson Pdf

Author : Tom Geue,Elena Giusti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843041

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Unspoken Rome by Tom Geue,Elena Giusti Pdf

Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy.

Author : Claude Julien Rawson,Aaron Santesso
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0874138426

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John Dryden (1631-1700) by Claude Julien Rawson,Aaron Santesso Pdf

American, British, and Australian scholars of English gathered at Yale University in October 2000 to mark the tercentenary of the British writer's death. Their 14 essays explore such aspects as modernity and exclusion in his The Spanish Fryar, his translation of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, and his Hamlet as an unwritten masterpiece. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Virgil Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X006058537

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Proceedings of the Virgil Society by Virgil Society Pdf

Author : John Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Scots language
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000103461

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations, by Examples from Ancient and Modern Writers; Shewing Their Affinity to Those of Other Languages, and Especially the Northern; Explaining Many Terms, Which, Though Now Obsolete in England, Were Formerly Common to Both Countries; and Elucidating National Rites, Customs, and Institutions, in Their Analogy to Those of Other Nations: to which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language by John Jamieson Pdf

Author : Joseph Tusiani
Publisher : Legas / Gaetano Cipolla
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781881901297

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Dante's Divine Comedy by Joseph Tusiani Pdf

A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.