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| Publisher | OUP Oxford |
| ISBN 13 | 9780199212361 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199212368 |
| Book Subtitle | Pessimistic Readings Of The Aeneid In Early Modern Culture |
| Book Description | 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 how they 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; i |
| Language | English |
| Author | Craig Kallendorf |
| Edition Number | 1st Edition |
| Publication Date | 25-May-13 |
| Number of Pages | 268 |
The Other Virgil hardcover english - 25-May-13
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