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The design of Virgil's Bucolics / John Van Sickle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Sickle, John.
- Series:
- Bristol classical paperbacks
- BCPaperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Bucolica.
- Virgil.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 258 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bristol Classical Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "In 1986, reviewing recent work on the Bucolics, William S. Anderson wrote, 'Van Sickle, Design, has produced the most persuasive portrait of the Eclogues, arguing cogently for what he calls an "ideological order".' The Design of Virgil's Bucolics argues that Virgil composed his ten eclogues as parts of a system: the Book of Bucolics conceived as a concerted whole. The report of frequent theatre presentations showed that Virgil caught attention withdramatic flair, masking an ideological programme that grew to encompass motifs of a returning Golden Age and new myth, providing cover for the Caesarist regime, casting the poet as a prophet, vates, and laying groundwork for the Georgics and Aeneid. Design argues, too, that ideology implied a poetic programme and that bucolic drama was metapoetic, starting with the discovery that already the first eclogue rewrote Theocritus with metapoetic point, despite the scholarly fad that styled Virgil's programme as Callimachean and postponed it to the sixth eclogue. Each eclogue in factmade a distinct contribution, the tenth complementing the newpolitical mythology of the first half book with the new myth of Arcadian poetics. An extensive new Introduction to this second edition reviews developments and shortfalls in recent work on the Bucolics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Order
- pt. 2. Poetics
- pt. 3. Design.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472540270
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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