Reading Virgil and his texts
Reading Virgil and his texts: studies in intertextuality Richard F. Thomas
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1999.
ISBN: 0472108972
DDC: 871.01
LCC: PA6825
Edition: (acid-free paper)
Summary:
"The articles and notes included in this volume were published
between 1979 and 1998. In their present format these studies take on
a diachronic aspect additional to the synchronic status that they had
in their original context. Dealing with the intricate ways in which
Virgil, and in the introductory chapter his predecessor Catullus,
manipulated and appropriated their inherited Greek and Roman literary
tradition, this book presents a profile, through detailed studies, of
the mechanics of one of the most dynamic periods in the literary
history of any culture." "There is throughout a working assumption
that intertextual connections can be established, and further that
functions and purposes, even intended ones, may be inferred from
those connections. The hermeneutic stance, if there is a single one,
is that the presence of the model's intertext, when triggered by
reader recognition in the (Catullan or) Virgilian text, has a
powerful ability to create meaning." "This book will be of interest
to scholars and students of Greek and Roman poetry but should also be
of value to students of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern
vernacular literatures, most of whose poets saw themselves closely
connected to Virgil, and many of whom entered into similar
relationships with Virgilian and other Latin texts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-338) and indexes.
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