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EBOOK Other Virgil:`Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191607394
EAN: 9E205771EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2007
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The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say        different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to        support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but        between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in        the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book        focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show howthey used the        Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their        society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as        well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and        Shakespeare's The Tempest, are; in the latter case, thepoems can be understood in        new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear.

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