Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics

Weitere Verfasser: Freer, Nicholas, , [HerausgeberIn]
Xinyue, Bobby, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource.
Also available in printing.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Print version: | ISSN: 9781350070516
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Reading the Georgics
  • The story of you: second-person narrative and the narratology of the Georgics / Robert Cowan
  • Clearing the ground in Georgics 1 / Stephen J. Heyworth
  • Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics / Richard Thomas
  • Religion and philosophy
  • Georgica and Orphica: the Georgics in the context of Orphic poetry and religion / Tom Mackenzie
  • Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean sirens of poetry / Nicholas Freer
  • Politics and society
  • Divinization and didactic efficacy in Virgil's Georgics / Bobby Xinyue
  • Bunte barbaren setting up the stage: re-inventing the barbarian on the Georgics' theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48) / Elena Giusti
  • From Munera uestra cano to Ipse dona feram: language of social reciprocity in the Georgics / Martin Stockinger
  • Roman responses
  • "Pulpy fiction": Virgilian reception and genre in Columella De re rustica 10 / Sara Myers
  • Servian readings of religion in the Georgics / Ailsa Hunt
  • Modern responses
  • The Georgics off the Canadian coast: Marc Lescarbot's Adieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian tradition / William Barton
  • Shelley's Georgic landscape / Katharine Earnshaw
  • Women and earth: female responses to Virgil's Georgics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Susanna Braund.