Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bobby Xinyue & Nicholas Freer.
• Editors: Xinyue, Bobby; Freer, Nicholas
• Contents: Reading the Georgics -- The story of you: second-person narrative and the narratology of the Georgics / Robert Cowan -- Clearing the ground in Georgics 1 / Stephen J. Heyworth -- Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics / Richard Thomas -- Religion and philosophy -- Georgica and Orphica: the Georgics in the context of Orphic poetry and religion / Tom Mackenzie -- Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean sirens of poetry / Nicholas Freer -- Politics and society -- Divinization and didactic efficacy in Virgil's Georgics / Bobby Xinyue -- Bunte barbaren setting up the stage: re-inventing the barbarian on the Georgics' theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48) / Elena Giusti -- From Munera uestra cano to Ipse dona feram: language of social reciprocity in the Georgics / Martin Stockinger -- Roman responses -- "Pulpy fiction": Virgilian reception and genre in Columella De re rustica 10 / Sara Myers -- Servian readings of religion in the Georgics / Ailsa Hunt -- Modern responses -- The Georgics off the Canadian coast: Marc Lescarbot's Adieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian tradition / William Barton -- Shelley's Georgic landscape / Katharine Earnshaw -- Women and earth: female responses to Virgil's Georgics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Susanna Braund.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 871/.01; Classical history / classical civilisation; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); POETRY / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Collections -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical; History -- Ancient -- General; Poetry -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Electronic books; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350070530
• Related ISBNs: 135007053X; 9781350070516; 1350070513
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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