Download or read book Audax Iuventa Virgil s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction written by Raymond Michael Kania and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Eclogues is complicated by the fact that we have the ten poems in the form of a book evidently designed to be read as an integrated whole. The book exhibits signs of formal unity such that a sequential reading is preferable and fruitful. At the same time, efforts to impose order by reading a plot or linear narrative into the collection have proven unsatisfactory. The dissertation argues that the search for the Eclogue Book's unity yields richer understandings of particular poems and a better appreciation of the artistry of the whole--but not the specious satisfaction offered by tidy structural schemes. Furthermore, that tension between order and disorder, and the frustrations to which it may lead readers, is a formal feature of the book that also is reflected in its fictional contents. The characters of the Eclogues are often constrained by external forces and painfully aware of their own limitations; pleasure or happiness exists in the poems despite the absence of complete satisfaction or unfettered efficacy.
Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction written by Raymond Kania and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, comprehensive study of Virgil's Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.
Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues and the Art of Fiction written by Raymond Kania and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own making. This makes for a rich work of art and an object of legitimate aesthetic and imaginative engagement. Increased attention to the fictionality of Virgilian poetry also complicates and enriches the Eclogues' social and political dimensions. The book offers new interpretations of poems like Eclogues 5 and 9, which, according to traditional allegorical readings, concern Julius Caesar and the confiscation of lands under Octavian, respectively. It shows how the Eclogue world stands in a less stable relation to reality; these poems challenge readers at every turn to reimagine the relationship between fiction and the real.
Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Irrational written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of the Augustan regime presents itself as the assertion of order and rationality in the political, ideological, and artistic spheres, after the disorder and madness of the civil wars of the late Republic. But the classical, Apollonian poetry of the Augustan period is fascinated by the irrational in both the public and private spheres. There is a vivid memory of the political and military furor that destroyed the Republic, and also an anxiety that furor may resurface, that the repressed may return. Epic and elegy are both obsessed with erotic madness: Dido experiences in her very public role the disabling effects of love that are both lamented and celebrated by the love elegists. Didactic (especially the Georgics) and the related Horatian exercises in satire and epistle, offer programmes for constructing rational order in the natural, political, and psychological worlds, but at best contain uneasily an ever-present threat of confusion and backsliding, and for the most part fall short of the austere standards of rational exposition set by Lucretius. Dionysus and the Dionysiac enjoy a prominence in Augustan poetry and art that goes well beyond the merely ornamental. The person of the emperor Augustus himself tests the limits of rational categorization. Augustan Poetry and the Irrational contains contributions by some of the leading experts of the Augustan period as well as a number of younger scholars. An introduction which surveys the field as a whole is followed by chapters that examine the manifestations of the irrational in a range of Augustan poets, including Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and the love elegists, and also explore elements of post-classical reception.
Download or read book Virgil Aeneid 8 written by Lee M. Fratantuono and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil, Aeneid 8 provides the first full-scale commentary on one of the most important and popular books of the great epic of imperial Rome. The commentary is accompanied by a new critical text and a prose translation.
Download or read book The Pastorals written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Martial s Rome written by Victoria Rimell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Martial's radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome.
Download or read book Physiognomics in the Ancient World written by Elizabeth Cornelia Evans and published by Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1969 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Homosexuality written by Craig Arthur Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction 1. Roman Traditions: Slaves, Prostitutes, and Wives 2. Greece and Rome 3. The Concept of Stuprum 4. Effeminacy and Masculinity 5. Sexual Roles and Identities Conclusions.
Download or read book Imagery of Colour Shining in Catullus Propertius Horace written by Jacqueline Clarke and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been growing interest in the concepts of pictorial vividness («enargeia») and pictorial description («ekphrasis») in the works of ancient writers. Colour imagery can play a significant part in such pictorial effects. This book explores the visual and stylistic contributions that words for colour and shining make to the poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Horace. First, the instances of colour usage by the three poets are analyzed and compared with the colour imagery of other ancient poets and artists. «Colour readings» of selected poems follow, illustrating how colours are employed by these poets to heighten the visual impact of their poems and influence the reader's emotional responses. This book fills a gap in the scholarship on colour in ancient poetry and provides fresh perspectives on the work of three important poets.
Download or read book Post Augustan Poetry from Seneca to Juvenal written by Harold Edgeworth Butler and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1909 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Auriacus Sive Libertas Saucia written by Daniel Heinsius and published by Drama and Theatre in Early Mod. This book was released on 2020 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an edition of the Latin text of Daniel Heinsius' Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602), with an introduction, a translation and a commentary. Auriacus was Heinsius' history drama, with which he wished to bring Dutch drama to the level of antiquity"--
Download or read book Reading Medieval Latin written by Keith Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will find that it follows on after the end of section 5 of that course.) It is an anthology, organised chronologically and thematically in four parts. Each part is divided into chapters with introductory material, texts, and commentaries which give help with syntax, sentence-structure, and background. There are brief sections on medieval orthography and grammar, together with a vocabulary which includes words (or meanings) not found in standard classical dictionaries. The texts chosen cover areas of interest to students of medieval history, philosophy, theology, and literature.
Download or read book Poetic Closure written by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem.
Download or read book Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance written by Peter Godman and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horace written by Horace and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Theocritus written by Anna Rist and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and co
