Author: Brooks Otis
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.
Author: Taylor Corse
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133851
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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This book demonstrates how Dryden made Virgil's Aeneid available in an English idiom that would reflect and appeal to English tastes and values over a long period of time.
Author: Vladimir Jankovic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226392165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
Author: Troy M. Troftgruben
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161504532
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 2009.
Author: K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147442967X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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Examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan's place in the world
Author: Barbara Jane Bono
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520335651
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Author: John D. Bernard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521362520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A comprehensive study of pastoralism in Edmund Spenser's poetry.
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: Paul Barolsky
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271073756
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book demonstrates that the modern idea of the artist has deep roots in the image of the epic poet, from Homer to Ovid to Dante. Barolsky’s major claim is that the history of the artist is inseparable from historical fiction about the artist and that fiction is essential to the reality of the artist’s imagination.
Author: Jon A. Quitslund
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802035059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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In Spenser's Supreme Fiction, Jon A. Quitslund offers a rich analysis of The Faerie Queene and of several texts contributing to the revival of Platonism stimulated by Marsilio Ficino's labours as a translator and interpreter of Plato and the ancient Neoplatonists. To the old issue of the scope and character of Spenser's Platonism, Quitslund brings fresh insights from contemporary views on gender and identity, intertextuality, and the centrality of fiction within all aspects of Renaissance culture. He argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. Passages central to the poet's world-making project are shown to be intertextually linked to Book VI of the AeneidM and to Plato's Symposium, regarded in the commentaries of Landino and Ficino as explanations of the gentile prisca theologia, a cosmology parallel to the tenets of Christianity. The first half of the book examines Spenser's representation of the macrocosm and its replication in human nature's lesser world in the light of divergent tendencies within humanism. The legacy of Plato is shown to be especially important in the esoteric tradition, which made the province of natural philosophy part of the soul's itinerary back to its otherworldly origins. In the second half, The Faerie Queene is interpreted as an unfolding pattern: the dynamic order of nature is flawed but not fallen, and seen against that background, human culture contains in its myths and images both corruptions of natural impulses and aspirations to transcend the limits imposed by mortality.
