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Katharina Volk (dir.), Vergil's Eclogues

Katharina Volk (dir.), Vergil's Eclogues

Publié le par Frédérique Fleck (Source : BMCR)

 


Katharina Volk (dir.), Vergil's Eclogues, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, coll. "Oxford Readings in Classical Studies", 2008. 293 pages.

 

  • ISBN9780199202935  /  ISBN 9780199202942
  • $130.00/£65.00  /  $49.95/£25.00(pb) 

Recension par Timothy Saunders (University of Tromsø) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.03.40.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

This volume, together with its companion on the Georgics and thepreviously published volume on the Aeneid, completes the coverage ofVergil's poetry in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. It collectsten classic papers on the Eclogues written between 1970 and 1999 byleading scholars from several different countries. The contributionsare representative of recent developments in Vergilian scholarship,with some discussing general issues raised by the work and otherstreating important individual poems and passages. The editor'sIntroduction places the essays in their context. A conspectus ofcontemporary Eclogues criticism, the book will be helpful to studentswho are encountering the poems for the first time - all Latin has beentranslated - and will also serve as a reference work for more seasonedscholars.
Katharina Volk is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Columbia University.

Table des matières:

1. Introduction: scholarly approaches to the Eclogues since 1970, Katharina Volk
2. Arcadia: modern occident and classical antiquity, Ernst A. Schmidt
3. The style of Virgil's Eclogues, R. G. M. Nisbet
4. Bucolic nomina in Virgil and Theocritus: on the poetic technique of Virgil's Eclogues, Lorenz Rumpf
5. Allusive artistry and Vergil's revisionary program: Eclogues 1-3, Thomas K. Hubbard
6. On Eclogue 1.79-83, Christine G. Perkell
7. Virgil's third Eclogue: how do you keep an idiot in suspense? John Henderson
8. Virgil's fourth Eclogue: Easterners and Westerners, R. G. M. Nisbet
9. The sixth Eclogue: Virgil's poetic genealogy, David O. Ross, Jr
10. An interpretation of the tenth Eclogue, Gian Biagio Conte
11. Eclogues in extremis: on the staying power of pastoral, Seamus Heaney

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