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Bucolic Ecology

By Timothy Saunders

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Bucolic Ecology

By Timothy Saunders

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2008-10-16
Publication Date:
2008-10-16
Publisher:
Bristol Classical Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715636170
ISBN13:
9780715636176
Weight:
304 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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