Virgil's Schoolboys - The Poetics of Pedagogy in Renaissance England

Zusatztext Virgil's Schoolboys makes a valuable contribution to a field which its author understands well. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Wallace is Associate Professor of English, Carleton University Klappentext An examination of the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England. Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an original theorist of the nature and mechanics of instruction. Zusammenfassung An examination of the ways in which Virgil's poems were received and employed in the schoolrooms of 16th- and 17th-century England. Andrew Wallace argues that the Roman poet is an original theorist of the nature and mechanics of instruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Poet as Schoolbook 2: Pastoral and the Painful Schoolmaster 3: Placement and Pedagogy in the Georgics 4: Forgetting Epic Conclusion: 'Virgilius poetarum doctissimus'

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Wallace
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.01.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780199591244
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959124-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Classical Presences; Classical Presences
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous