| Series |
Classical presences
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index. |
| Contents |
Marginalization -- Laudatory epic and the nature of power in the early Renaissance -- Virgil and the challenge to laudatory epic -- Filelfo's Sphortias : imitation as resistance -- Colonization -- Ercilla's La araucana : epic and the voice of the other -- The tempest : drama and the valorization of the other -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : lyric and the female other between two worlds -- Revolution -- Milton's Paradise lost : from commonwealth to Restoration -- Joel Barlow, Virgil, and the American Revolution -- Le Plat's Virgile en France : revolution and repression -- Appendix 1 : Manuscripts of Filelfo's Sphortias -- Appendix 2 : Filelfo's Virgilian studies. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest , are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear. |
| Funding |
TT collection copy acquired under the auspices of Prof. Éamonn Ó Carragáin. |
| Subject |
Virgil. Aeneis.
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Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature.
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Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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| Collection |
Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
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| ISBN |
9780199212361 (alk. paper) |
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0199212368 (alk. paper) |
| Description |
xiii, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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