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Author Breed, Brian W

Title Pastoral inscriptions : reading and writing Virgil's Eclogues / Brian W. Breed
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Classical literature and society
Classical literature and society.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
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Subject Virgil. Bucolica
SUBJECT Bucolica (Virgil) fast
Subject Pastoral poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Pastoral poetry, Latin
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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