Pastoral inscriptions reading and writing Virgil's eclogues Brian W. Breed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breed, Brian W., author.

Series:

Classical literature and society.

Classical literature and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Bucolica--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London Bristol Classical Press 2012.

Summary:

"Virgil's 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 representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the Eclogues as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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 representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the "Eclogues" as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Orality and Textuality in the Eclogues

2. Other People's Voices

3. Dialogue and Textuality in the Amoebean Eclogues

4. Imago Vocis: Echoes, Ecphrasis and the Voice as Source

5. Pastoral Origins in Eclogue 1

6. Site Translation

7. Eclogue 4: The Voice of the Author

8. Reading the Eclogues

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781849668064

184966806X

9781849668088

1849668086

OCLC:

868980063