Virgil's Book of bucolics, the ten eclogues translated into English verse : framed by cues for reading aloud and clues for threading texts and themes / John Van Sickle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Sickle, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Virgil. Bucolica.

Virgil.

Virgil--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Note to the Reader; A User Guide to 'pastoral,' 'eclogue,' Eclogues, 'bucolic,' and Bucolics; Themes from Troubled Times at Rome; Cues for Drama: Mime Revoicing Roman Mythic Frame; Eclogue 1. Contrary Fates Clash: Citizen- Singer Silenced {break with former Roman frame and vatic voice} // Old Slave Free to Sing {new Roman framing myth and vatic voice}; Eclogue 2. New Roman Myth Frames Restless Song in Love {love spell builds thematic reach}; Eclogue 3. Erotic-Vatic Singing Swells Mythic Frame {'all' filled by Jove}

Eclogue 4. Full Vatic Song {myth frames 'all': bucolic, georgic, civic- heroic, cosmic ranges}Eclogue 5. Vatic Hymns Cap Roman Myth {new bucolic-georgic (Roman) hero: Daphnis}; Eclogue 6. Freed Singer-Slave Put Down {AMOR // ROMA: cosmic, tragic, vatic reach}; Eclogue 7. Silenced Singer Drawn Back to Frame {Daphnis-Arcadian verses: restrained voice downs vatic push}; Eclogue 8. Framer Resifts {tragic 'love': Arcadian verse // vatic 'love': spells to get back Daphnis}; Eclogue 9. Roman Mythic Frame and Vatic Song Dispelled {Daphnis minus Roman role}

Rome minus Annals and Heroic Origin (Catullus)The Warp and Weft of Varying Motifs: Structure Charted; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Virgil. Bucolica. English

ISBN:

0-8018-9961-3

OCLC:

794700433