Bucolic ecology : Virgil's Eclogues and the environmental literary tradition /
"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, "Bucolic Ecology" illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the 'Eclogues' find there both a sequence of analogies for their own poetic processes and a map upon which can be located other landmarks in Greco-Roman literature. Unlike previous studies of this kind, "Bucolic Ecology" does not attribute to Virgil a predominantly Romantic conception of nature and its relationship to poetry, but by adopting such differing approaches to the physical world as astronomy, geography, topography, landscape and ecology, it offers an account of the Eclogues that emphasises their range and complexity and reaffirms their innovation and audacity."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472521095 1472521099 9781472539663 1472539664 9781472521101 1472521102 0715636170 9780715636176 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781472539663 |