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The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle
of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international
events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work
of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical
backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and
other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the
largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the
poems included is the two-book Austrias Carmen "by the remarkable
Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of
Latin in Granada. The poems, including two previously unpublished,
are here translated into English for the first time, along with
fresh editions of the Latin texts.
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of
classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero
praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it
as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to
the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return
of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle
Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a
setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for
displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed. Using the myth
of Proserpina as a through line, Sarah Spence charts the
relationship Western empire held with its myths and its own past.
She takes an in-depth, panoramic look at a diverse range of texts
set on Sicily, demonstrating how the myth of Proserpina enables a
discussion of empire in terms of balance, loss, and negotiation.
Providing new readings of authors as separated in time and culture
as Vergil, Claudian, and Dante, Spence shows how the shape of
Proserpina's tale and perceptions of the island change from a myth
of loss to one of redemption, with the volcanic Mt. Etna playing an
increasingly central role. Delving into the ways that myth and
geography affect politics and poetics, The Return of Proserpina
explores the power of language and the written word during a period
of tremendous cultural turbulence.
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of
classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero
praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it
as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to
the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return
of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle
Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a
setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for
displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed. Using the myth
of Proserpina as a through line, Sarah Spence charts the
relationship Western empire held with its myths and its own past.
She takes an in-depth, panoramic look at a diverse range of texts
set on Sicily, demonstrating how the myth of Proserpina enables a
discussion of empire in terms of balance, loss, and negotiation.
Providing new readings of authors as separated in time and culture
as Vergil, Claudian, and Dante, Spence shows how the shape of
Proserpina's tale and perceptions of the island change from a myth
of loss to one of redemption, with the volcanic Mt. Etna playing an
increasingly central role. Delving into the ways that myth and
geography affect politics and poetics, The Return of Proserpina
explores the power of language and the written word during a period
of tremendous cultural turbulence.
Title: Poems and a Meditation, etc.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Spence, Sarah; 1821. 8 . 11644.d.16.
Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book
takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its
purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech,
and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides
a common denominator among western cultures from Cicero to the
present. The central idea is that, in the western tradition,
figurative speech - using language to do more than name - provides
the fundamental way for language to articulate concerns central to
each cultural moment. In this study, Sarah Spence identifies the
embedded tropes for four periods in Western culture: Roman
antiquity, the High Middle Ages, the Age of Montaigne, and our
present, post-9/11 moment. In so doing, she reasserts the
fundamental importance of rhetoric, the art of speaking well.
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key
twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a
subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that
the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into
existence without both the gap between Latinity and the vernacular
and a shift in perspective towards a visual and spatial
orientation. This results in a self which is not an agent that will
act on the outside world like the Renaissance self, but, rather,
one which inhabits a potential, middle ground, or 'space of
agency', explained here partly in terms of object-relations theory.
Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key
twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a
subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that
the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into
existence without both the gap between Latinity and the vernacular
and a shift in perspective towards a visual and spatial
orientation. This results in a self which is not an agent that will
act on the outside world like the Renaissance self, but, rather,
one which inhabits a potential, middle ground, or 'space of
agency', explained here partly in terms of object-relations theory.
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