Philip J. Ford and Roger Green (dir.), George Buchanan: poet and dramatist, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2009. 380 p.
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- ISBN 9781905125364.
Présentation de l'éditeur:
Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the mostinfluential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the linguafranca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailedinternationally as easily the prince of poets' . Here fifteen scholars,from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative use of ancienttexts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture ofScotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.
Table des matières:
Buchanan's poetic achievement (Philip Ford);
'Redundant'epithets in Buchanan's Pastorals (Robert Cummings);
Literarymetamorphosis in Buchanan's De Sphaera (Emma Gee);
The writing ofmemory in George Buchanan's Iusta (Nathalie Catellani-Dufrene);
Homoexsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan's Psalms (Elwira Buszewicz);
TheHeavens are Telling: a Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed (Roger Green);
The historical importance of Jean Servin's settings of Buchanan's PsalmParaphrases (James Porter);
Buchanan's Psalms and the musical settingsby Statius Olthof (Margaret Duncumb);
Buchanan's tragedies andcontemporary dramatic theory (Giacomo Cardinali);
Biblical inspirationin Buchanan's tragedies (Carine Ferradou);
Buchanan and the poetics ofborrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides' Medea (Jean-FredericChevalier);
'Translating' Buchanan (Ronnie Jack);
Drama out of the'closet': Buchanan on stage (Jamie Reid Baxter);
'Return, Buchanan 'The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to George Buchanan and Buchanan's Reply(Jack MacQueen);
Dry Bones of Contention? Picking apart Buchanan'sPsalms (Roger Green);
George Buchanan's Half Millennium (RobertCrawford).