Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide - Couverture souple

Perkell, Christine G.

 
9780806131399: Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 080613139X ISBN 13 : 9780806131399
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Synopsis

Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive.

An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem's historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christine Perkell is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of The Poet's Truth: A study of the Poet in Virgil's "Georgics."

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080613139X
ISBN 13 
9780806131399
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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Personne responsable
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