Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bobby Xinyue is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin Literature and Renaissance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Nicholas Freer is Teaching Fellow in Latin Literature at the University of Durham, UK.
These original essays offer a welcome boost to study of the Georgics.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
In a very well done introduction, B. Xinyue and N. Freer, having explained their motives in detail, take stock of the Georgics' approaches in the second half of the 20th century and at the start of the 21st century. One can immediately tell that they are experts in the subject. Not only do they cite many books, they also analyse them at length, with precision and finesse.
Revue des Études Anciennes (trans. by Bloomsbury)
Their introduction is a useful mise à jour, nicely surveying recent work.
Greece & Rome
Virgil’s Georgics, the most neglected of the poet’s three major works, is brought to life and infused with fresh meanings in this dynamic collection of new readings. The Georgics is shown to be a rich field of inherited and varied literary forms, actively inviting a wide range of interpretations as well as deep reflection on its place within the tradition of didactic poetry.
The essays contained in this volume – contributed by scholars from Australia, Europe and North America – offer new approaches and interpretive methods that greatly enhance our understanding of Virgil’s poem. In the process, they unearth an array of literary and philosophical sources which exerted a rich influence on the Georgics but whose impact has hitherto been underestimated in scholarship. A second goal of the volume is to examine how the Georgics – with its profound meditations on humankind, nature, and the socio-political world of its creation – has been (re)interpreted and appropriated by readers and critics from antiquity to the modern era. The volume opens up a number of exciting new research avenues for the study of the reception of the Georgics by highlighting the myriad ways in which the poem has been understood by ancient readers, early modern poets, explorers of the 'New World', and female translators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Preface
Notes on the Text
List of Contributors
Introduction
Bobby Xinyue and Nicholas Freer
Part I – Reading the Georgics
1. The Story of You: Second-person Narrative and the Narratology of the Georgics, Robert Cowan
2. Clearing the Ground in Georgics 1, Stephen J. Heyworth
3. Aesthetics, Form and Meaning in the Georgics, Richard Thomas
Part II – Religion and Philosophy
4. Georgica and Orphica: The Georgics in the Context of Orphic Poetry and Religion, Tom Mackenzie
5. Virgil’s Georgics and the Epicurean Sirens of Poetry, Nicholas Freer
Part III – Politics and Society
6. Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics, Bobby Xinyue
7. Bunte Barbaren Setting Up the Stage: Re-inventing the Barbarian on the Georgics’ Theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48), Elena Giusti
8. From munera uestra cano to ipse dona feram: Language of Social Reciprocity in the Georgics, Martin Stöckinger
Part IV – Roman Responses
9. ‘Pulpy Fiction’: Virgilian Reception and Genre in Columella De Re Rustica 10, Sara Myers
10. Servian Readings of Religion in the Georgics, Ailsa Hunt
Part V – Modern Responses
11. The Georgics off the Canadian Coast: Marc Lescarbot’s A-dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian Tradition, William Barton
12. Shelley’s Georgic Landscape, Katharine Earnshaw
13. Women and Earth: Female Responses to Virgil’s Georgics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Susanna Braund
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bobby Xinyue is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin Literature and Renaissance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
Nicholas Freer is Teaching Fellow in Latin Literature at the University of Durham, UK.