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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hubbard, Thomas K. Pipes of Pan. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998 (OCoLC)647325223 |
Named Person: | Virgil; Theocritus; Theocritus.; Théocrite - Influence.; Virgile - Critique et interprétation.; Virgile; Théocrite; Theocritus.; Virgil.; Virgile |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas K Hubbard |
ISBN: | 0472108557 9780472108558 |
OCLC Number: | 39671908 |
Description: | vi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Poetic succession and the genesis of Alexandrian bucolic -- Vergil's revisionary progression -- In Vergil's shadow: later Latin pastoral -- Tityrus in the Middle Ages -- Renaissance refashionings: the future as fragment of the past. |
Responsibility: | Thomas K. Hubbard. |
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Abstract:
Departing from conventional views of the pastoral genre as an Arcadian escape from urban sophistication, The Pipes of Pan highlights its genesis in the allusive and polemical literary cultures of Alexandria and Rome. Both cities placed great emphasis upon learned invocation and reformulation of poetic models. The pastoral metaphor provided Theocritus and Vergil with tools for representing the contests and confrontations of poets and genres, the exchange of ideas among poets, and poets' reflections on the efficacy of their works.
The Pipes of Pan combines multiple strands of contemporary intertextual theory with reception aesthetics and Harold Bloom's theory of intersubjective conflict between generations of poets. It also provides one of the first systematic studies of intertextual and intersubjective dynamics with a whole genre.
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