Darkness Visible - A Study of Vergil''s 'Aeneid'

With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. Zusammenfassung With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal! and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate! this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem.

Product details

• Authors: W. R. Johnson, W. Ralph Johnson, Johnson W. R., W. r Johnson
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2015
• EAN: 9780226252230
• ISBN: 978-0-226-25223-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Ancient, classical and medieval texts