Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to MiltonPrinceton University Press, 2021 M01 12 - 444 páginas Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. |
Contenido
Versions of Actium | 21 |
Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid | 50 |
THREE | 99 |
Ercilla and dAubigné | 131 |
FIVE | 213 |
Miltons Politics and Paradise Regained | 325 |
NINE | 343 |
NOTES TO THE CHAPTERS | 369 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton David Quint Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton David Quint Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton David Quint,Professor David Quint Sin vista previa disponible - 1993 |