Darkness Visible : A Study of Vergil's "Aeneid" / W. R. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, W. R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil. Aeneis.

Virgil.

Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.

Aeneas.

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. R. Johnson's classic study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil's enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths. With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem. A timeless work of scholarship, Darkness Visible will enthrall classicists as well as students and scholars of the history of criticism-specifically the way in which politics influence modern readings of the classics-and of poetry and literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations Used in Notes

I. Eliot's Myth and Vergil's Fictions

II. Lessing, Auerbach, Gombrich: The Norm of Reality and the Spectrum of Decorum

III. Varia Confusus Imagine Rerum: Depths and Surfaces

IV. The Worlds Vergil Lived In

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226252377

022625237X

OCLC:

903633804