UID:
almafu_9961761269902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009476140
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1009476149
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9781009476188
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1009476181
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9781009476157
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1009476157
Content:
This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere Romantic projections, that suggest Roman authors did not care about the environment, or that relegate place to the status of background and setting, it uses both ecocritical theory and close, contextualized readings to show how Horace and Vergil make issues of place, environment, and ecology central to their poetry. As the book argues, each work also creates a distinctive environmental poetics, in which the nonhuman world and particular local environments help shape the specific qualities of its poetry. By attending to the environmental and place-based poetics of these works, the book generates new readings of Vergil and Horace while deepening and complicating how we understand the traditions and concepts of environmental literature.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Dec 2024).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editions of Main Texts -- Introduction -- 0.1 Ecocriticism and Classics -- 0.2 Natures, Ancient and Modern -- 0.3 Place, Environment, and Ecology -- 0.4 Green Classics? Contexts for Ancient Environmental Thought -- 0.5 Outline of the Chapters -- Chapter 1 Local Dwelling and Pastoral Place in Vergil's Eclogues -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Local Place in the Eclogues -- 1.3 Placing Pastoral -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Local Environments and More-Than-Human Music of the Eclogues -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The More-Than-Human World of the Eclogues -- 2.3 Bucolic Soundscapes and Vergil's Acoustic Ecopoetics -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Vergil's Ecological Poem -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Farming and Ecology in the Georgics -- 3.3 The Place of the Human and the Knowledge of the Poem -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Poetry of Place and Planet: Fractal Locality in Vergil's Georgics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Local and the Global -- 4.3 Fractal Locality and Vergil's Poetics of Scale -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Natures and the Nonhuman in Horace's Odes -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Horatian Nature Poetry -- 5.3 The Poet, the Divine, and the Nonhuman -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Translocal Lyric: Horace's Odes and the Poetry of Place -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Place in Horace's Odes -- 6.3 The Odes as Place-Based Poetry -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Epilogue: Ovid in Exile and Augustan Environmental Poetry -- Ecocriticism, Realism, and Reference -- Place and Displacement in Ovid's Exile Poetry -- Ecopoetics in Exile -- Ovidian Facts and Environmental Fiction -- Augustan Environmental Poetics -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009476171
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1009476173
Language:
English
Keywords:
Literary criticism.
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