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Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Editat de Dr Nicholas Freer, Bobby Xinyue
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2020
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350177482
ISBN-10: 1350177482
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

New readings of the Georgics from a range of perspectives, taking into account recent scholarship in diverse areas of study such as Orphic religion, Epicurean poetic theory, Roman social exchange and early Augustan culture and politics

Notă biografică

Bobby Xinyue is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin Literature and Renaissance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.Nicholas Freer is Teaching Fellow in Latin Literature at the University of Durham, UK.

Cuprins

PrefaceNotes on the TextList of Contributors IntroductionBobby Xinyue and Nicholas Freer Part I - Reading the Georgics1. The Story of You: Second-person Narrative and the Narratology of the Georgics, Robert Cowan 2. Clearing the Ground in Georgics 1, Stephen J. Heyworth 3. Aesthetics, Form and Meaning in the Georgics, Richard Thomas Part II - Religion and Philosophy4. Georgica and Orphica: The Georgics in the Context of Orphic Poetry and Religion, Tom Mackenzie 5. Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean Sirens of Poetry, Nicholas Freer Part III - Politics and Society 6. Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil's Georgics, Bobby Xinyue 7. Bunte Barbaren Setting Up the Stage: Re-inventing the Barbarian on the Georgics' Theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48), Elena Giusti 8. From munera uestra cano to ipse dona feram: Language of Social Reciprocity in the Georgics, Martin Stöckinger Part IV - Roman Responses 9. 'Pulpy Fiction': Virgilian Reception and Genre in Columella De Re Rustica 10, Sara Myers 10. Servian Readings of Religion in the Georgics, Ailsa Hunt Part V - Modern Responses11. The Georgics off the Canadian Coast: Marc Lescarbot's A-dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian Tradition, William Barton 12. Shelley's Georgic Landscape, Katharine Earnshaw 13. Women and Earth: Female Responses to Virgil's Georgics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Susanna Braund NotesBibliographyIndex LocorumIndex

Recenzii

These original essays offer a welcome boost to study of the Georgics.
In a very well done introduction, B. Xinyue and N. Freer, having explained their motives in detail, take stock of the Georgics' approaches in the second half of the 20th century and at the start of the 21st century. One can immediately tell that they are experts in the subject. Not only do they cite many books, they also analyse them at length, with precision and finesse.
Their introduction is a useful mise à jour, nicely surveying recent work.