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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

by Charles Martindale (Editor)

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    Paperback 1997

    $24.57
Synopsis

Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 388
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02 Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 0521498856
ISBN 13: 9780521498852
Book Overview: This volume offers seventeen essays on Virgil from an internationally distinguished team of scholars.

Media Reviews
' ... highly successful for both a specialist and non-specialist audience. Classical scholars will find much to think about ... and their students will find [this] invaluable.' The Times Literary Supplement
'Awareness of the importance of Virgil's reception is growing among Latinist, thanks in no small measure to the work of the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Virgil, Charles Martindale, and the fruitful results of this awareness are regularly on display in the collection ... Classical scholars will find much to think about ... and their students will find it invaluable. [The] book contains chapters that will launch a thousand essays. One may only hope that non-classicists will also be encouraged to explore the worlds of Virgil' The Times Literary Supplement
' ... not only an important new resource for those approaching Virgil for the first time, but it also affords a useful overview of the current state of Virgilian research ... I can recommend this book to anyone interested in Virgil.' Classics Ireland
One of the...qualities of this book is its general commitment to newer critical modalities and sometimes bracingly fresh critical sensitivities. Dan Hooley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
An accessible and up-to-date picture of the state of Virgilian studies. Margaret Worsham Musgrove, Religious Studies Review