Spenser and Virgil - The Pastoral Poems

Informationen zum Autor Syrithe Pugh is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen Klappentext An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets. Zusammenfassung An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems! with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies! politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's Eclogues 2. Virgilian negotiations in The Shepheardes Calender 3. Virgilian structure in The Shepheardes Calender 4. Reshaping the Virgilian cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel'5. Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'Index

Product details

• Authors: Syrithe Pugh, Syrithe N. A. M. Pugh
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781526101174
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0117-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup; The Manchester Spenser; Manchester Spenser Mup
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter