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Reading Virgil and His Texts - Studies in Intertextuality (Hardcover)
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Reading Virgil and His Texts - Studies in Intertextuality (Hardcover)
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There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect
each other--through translation, imitation, parody, and other forms
of emulation and subversion. Throughout the last two millennia, the
Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage,
persisting in the works of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney.
Richard F. Thomas's new volume demonstrates that such control and
manipulation of the inherited tradition is to be found with great
intensity in the very author who, in turn, created his own complex
tradition.
The articles and notes included in this volume have been selected
for their diachronic aspect in addition to the synchronic status
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 coherent profile,
through these detailed studies, of the mechanics of one of the most
dynamic periods in the literary history of any culture.
Richard Thomas--one of the most important voices in Latin literary
studies today--shows little anxiety about objections to authorial
intentionality. Throughout there is a working assumption that
intertextual connections can be established and, further, that
functions and purposes, even intended ones, may be inferred from
those connections.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Greek and
Latin literature but will also be of great value to students of
medieval, Renaissance, and early modern vernacular literatures,
most of whose poets see themselves as closely connected to
Virgil.
Richard F. Thomas is Professor of Greek and Latin, Harvard
University.
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