Bucolic ecology Virgil's eclogues and the environmental literary tradition Timothy Saunders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saunders, Timothy, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Bucolica--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Ecology in literature.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity. "--Bloomsbury Publishing

Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity

Contents:

Catasterisms

Cosmology

Geography

Topography

Landscape

Physics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472539663

1472539664

9781472521095

1472521099

OCLC:

861538607