Why Vergil?: A Collection of Interpretations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0865164355 ISBN 13 : 9780865164352

Editeur : Bolchazy Carducci Pub, 1999

Synopsis

We lack automatic and simple answers to the question "Why Vergil?" -- or many similar questions for that matter: why literature, why art, especially why old literature -- and at that -- why literature in an old language? Yet even after 2,000 years, the voice of Vergil still resonates with the universal human cry.

—From the Introduction

Vergil's gift to our times, as to others, is to teach us a way to see a world in turmoil, to hold many visions of it simultaneously, excruciatingly, all in absolute conflict with each other, and all of them true. ...Vergil created for us something that perhaps had not existed in quite this way before: the imaginative possibility of moral choices located between tragic recognition and idealized hope. ...Vergil's popularity in this century and this country may mean that more citizens now share Vergil's artful knowledge. The knowledge is a glimmer, a warning: be prepared, like Aeneas, to believe in something, to act for it, in action to compromise your ideal of it and then, and this is the hard part, to survive with grieving memory to act in hope again, with no promise of success and no choice but to go on.

—From the Conclusion

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bolchazy Carducci Pub
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0865164355
• ISBN 13: 9780865164352
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 451
• Éditeur: Quinn Stephanie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible