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Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues.

Virgil's ""Eclogues"" represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the ""Eclogues"" include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breed, Brian W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Colección:Classical literature and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Virgil's ""Eclogues"" represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the ""Eclogues"" include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the ""Eclogues"" is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses represen.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781849668088
1849668086