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Virgil
By: R. Alden SmitheBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
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Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and general readers a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to the works and literary reception of Virgil. Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil in translation Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote and lived Discusses the manuscript tradition of Virgil Traces the poet’s literary influence on later authors and his impact on the arts Includes suggestions for further readings
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| Title of eBook: Virgil | |
| Release Date: 06-24-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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| SKU | 9781444327465 |
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Virgil
Chapter One
Generalizing about Virgil: Dialogue, Wisdom, Mission
And behold I hear a voice ... "pick it up and read it!" Augustine (Confessions 8.12)
Literary code and genre dictate the nature of the tacit communication between the poet and the audience. Charles Segal (from his introduction to Conte's The Rhetoric of Imitation, 9)
Virgil wrote in code. The word "code," as it occurs in the citation above, refers to poetic style and to the method by which a poet conveys meaning. Poetry is encoded through certain generic associations and allusive connections. Though originally composed for a scroll, Virgil's poems have been preserved for us in the form of a book known as a "codex," the shape of a book that we still use today. The Latin word codex (i.e., caudex, originally "bark," later "book") is the origin of the English words code and codex. The epic code that the reader confronts when reading Virgil was itself recoded when it was transferred from the ancient scrolls to codex.
Virgil composed three major poetic works, each in dactylic hexameters under the generic term epos (Greek "word"). Virgil's works can thus be classified as three manifestations of epic code. Virgil's earliest work, the Eclogues, is bucolic, to all appearances concerning the world of herdsmen; his second, the Georgics, is didactic, ostensibly on farming; his grand narrative, the Aeneid, is heroic. These distinctions within the code belonging to epos represent the first signposts on our journey th
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