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Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics /

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9781350070530

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9781350070516

Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics /

[Book]

edited by Bobby Xinyue & Nicholas Freer.

New York, NY :

Bloomsbury Academic,

2019.

©2019

1 online resource (ix, 286 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading the Georgics -- The story of you: second-person narrative and the narratology of the Georgics / Robert Cowan -- Clearing the ground in Georgics 1 / Stephen J. Heyworth -- Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics / Richard Thomas -- Religion and philosophy -- Georgica and Orphica: the Georgics in the context of Orphic poetry and religion / Tom Mackenzie -- Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean sirens of poetry / Nicholas Freer -- Politics and society -- Divinization and didactic efficacy in Virgil's Georgics / Bobby Xinyue -- Bunte barbaren setting up the stage: re-inventing the barbarian on the Georgics' theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48) / Elena Giusti -- From Munera uestra cano to Ipse dona feram: language of social reciprocity in the Georgics / Martin Stockinger -- Roman responses -- "Pulpy fiction": Virgilian reception and genre in Columella De re rustica 10 / Sara Myers -- Servian readings of religion in the Georgics / Ailsa Hunt -- Modern responses -- The Georgics off the Canadian coast: Marc Lescarbot's Adieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian tradition / William Barton -- Shelley's Georgic landscape / Katharine Earnshaw -- Women and earth: female responses to Virgil's Georgics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Susanna Braund.

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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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9781350070530

Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics.

9781350070516

Virgil-- Influence.

Virgil., Georgica.

Virgil.

Georgica (Virgil)

Classical history-- classical civilisation.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.

POETRY-- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.

POE-- 008000

Freer, Nicholas

Xinyue, Bobby

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