UID:
almafu_9959695977402883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-48045-0
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1-107-48479-0
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1-139-00007-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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"the classic of all Europe" /
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Virgil in English translation /
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Modern receptions and their interpretative implications /
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Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity /
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The Virgil commentary of Servius /
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Virgils, from Dante to Milton /
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Virgil in art /
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Green politics : the Eclogues /
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Virgilian didaxis : value and meaning in the Georgics /
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Virgilian epic /
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Closure : the Book of Virgil /
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Poetry and power : Virgil's poetry in contemporary context /
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Rome and its traditions /
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Virgil and the cosmos : religious and philosophical ideas /
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The Virgilian intertext /
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Virgil's style /
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Virgilian narrative : story-telling /
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Virgilian narrative : ecphrasis /
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Approaching characterisation in Virgil /
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Sons and lovers : sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry /
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Virgil and tragedy /
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Envoi : the death of Virgil /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-49885-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-49539-3
Language:
English
