Virgil in a Cultural Tradition
Author : Richard Andrew Cardwell
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN :
Virgil and Renaissance Culture
Author : L. B. T. Houghton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2018
Category : European literature
ISBN : 9782503581903
Book Description
Brings together studies by scholars from a range of academic disciplines to assess the central position of Virgil in the intellectual, artistic, and political lives of the Renaissance. This collection of essays presents a variety of case studies of Virgils impact on different branches of Renaissance culture, covering the crucial areas of education and court culture, the visual arts, music history, philosophy, and Neo-Latin and vernacular literature. It brings together established scholars and younger researchers from a range of different academic disciplines. The studies included here will be of particular interest to students of Renaissance social, intellectual, and literary history, to art historians, and to those working on the reception of classical literature; some offer new perspectives on well-known material, while others investigate examples of Renaissance engagement with the Virgilian corpus which have received little or no previous attention. Building on recent scholarship on the Virgilian tradition, the collection opens up new avenues for research on the reception of both Virgil and other classical authors, and addresses questions of fundamental importance to historians of this period not least the perennial debate over the nature and definition of the Renaissance itself.
Aeneid
Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486113973
Book Description
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444318067
Book Description
A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship
Virgil, a Study in Civilized Poetry
Author : Brooks Otis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780806127828
Book Description
In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tradition to his own Roman contemporary aims and succeeded in making mythical and legendary figures meaningful to a sophisticated, unmythical age. Otis begins and ends his study with the Aeneid and includes chapters on the Bucolics and the Georgics. A new foreword by Ward W. Briggs, Jr., places Otis’s groundbreaking achievement in the context of past and present Virgilian scholarship.
The Western Theory of Tradition
Author : Sanford Budick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300081510
Book Description
A study of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures: according to this concept, the art of freely receiving and handing on cultural tradition and the act of achieving moral and aesthetic freedom in sublime representation are the same phenomenon.
Virgil Ortiz: Revolution
Author : Charles S. King
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780890136676
Book Description
With an artistic career spanning four decades, Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) is one of the most innovative artists working today. Not one to be limited or categorized, Ortiz's artistry extends across mediums and boundaries--challenging societal expectations and breaking taboos. Ortiz was taught traditional pueblo pottery techniques passed down from a matrilineal line of renowned Cochiti potters--grandmother Laurencita Herrera (1912-1984) and mother Seferina Ortiz (1931-2007). Virgil Ortiz: reVOlution is a midcareer retrospective that presents a view into Ortiz's transformative pottery and art to illuminate his creative and artistic manifestations. With a vision that merges apocalyptic themes, science fiction, and storytelling, Ortiz's ingenuity as a contemporary artist, provocateur, activist, futurist, and preservationist extends to his creativity working across media including pottery, design, fashion, film, jewelry, and décor. This beautiful book features more than 200 works of art selected by Virgil Ortiz as well as his artist statement. Curator Karen Kramer contributes a compelling portrait of the artist in the foreword to Charles S. King's biography. In addition, this book represents a unique collaboration between book designer and artist with Ortiz leaving his imprint on each page.
Virgil's Experience
Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019158455X
Book Description
This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and detail, but also bold, wide, and original in its scope. It combines the study of Virgil with the study of attitudes to nature throughout antiquity. Blending literature with history, and in the case of Lucretius, philosophy, it offers a vision and an interpretation of the culture of the 1st century BC as a whole. It argues that Lucretius and Virgil affected a revolution in Western sensibility; claiming that a book about poetry should be a book about life, it combines scholarship and precision with a sense of the importance of literature and its capacity to enhance our understanding of our past and of ourselves.
The Classical Tradition
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674035720
Book Description
The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.
Shaggy Crowns
Author : Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher :
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199681295
Book Description
Goldschmidt looks at the relationship between Rome's two great epic poems, Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid. Focusing on the intersections between intertextuality and the appropriations of cultural memory, Goldschmidt considers how Virgil's poem appropriates and re-writes the myths and memories which Ennius had enshrined in Roman epic.
