Other Virgil - 'Pessimistic'' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture

Zusatztext The book [is] one which any student of Virgil will find durable valuable Informationen zum Autor Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University. Klappentext The Other Virgil 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. Zusammenfassung The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Marginalization 2: Colonization 3: Revolution Conclusion

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• Authors: Craig Kallendorf, Craig (Professor of English and Classi Kallendorf, Kallendorf Craig
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780199212361
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921236-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets