Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Virgil’s Georgics, the most neglected of the poet’s three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh meanings in this dynamic collection of new readings. The Georgics is shown to be a rich field of inherited and varied literary forms, actively inviting a wide range of interpretations as well as deep reflection on its place within the tradition of didactic poetry.The essays contained in this volume – contributed by scholars from Australia, Europe and North America – offer new approaches and interpretive methods that greatly enhance our understanding of Virgil’s poem. In the process, they unearth an array of literary and philosophical sources which exerted a rich influence on the Georgics but whose impact has hitherto been underestimated in scholarship. A second goal of the volume is to examine how the Georgics – with its profound meditations on humankind, nature, and the socio-political world of its creation – has been (re)interpreted and appropriated by readers and critics from antiquity to the modern era. The volume opens up a number of exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the myriad ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the 'New World', and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-20
Mått154 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350177482

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PrefaceNotes on the TextList of ContributorsIntroductionBobby Xinyue and Nicholas FreerPart I – Reading the Georgics1. The Story of You: Second-person Narrative and the Narratology of the Georgics, Robert Cowan2. Clearing the Ground in Georgics 1, Stephen J. Heyworth3. Aesthetics, Form and Meaning in the Georgics, Richard ThomasPart II – Religion and Philosophy4. Georgica and Orphica: The Georgics in the Context of Orphic Poetry and Religion, Tom Mackenzie5. Virgil’s Georgics and the Epicurean Sirens of Poetry, Nicholas FreerPart III – Politics and Society6. Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics, Bobby Xinyue7. Bunte Barbaren Setting Up the Stage: Re-inventing the Barbarian on the Georgics’ Theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48), Elena Giusti8. From munera uestra cano to ipse dona feram: Language of Social Reciprocity in the Georgics, Martin StöckingerPart IV – Roman Responses 9. ‘Pulpy Fiction’: Virgilian Reception and Genre in Columella De Re Rustica 10, Sara Myers10. Servian Readings of Religion in the Georgics, Ailsa HuntPart V – Modern Responses11. The Georgics off the Canadian Coast: Marc Lescarbot’s A-dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian Tradition, William Barton12. Shelley’s Georgic Landscape, Katharine Earnshaw13. Women and Earth: Female Responses to Virgil’s Georgics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Susanna BraundNotesBibliographyIndex LocorumIndex