The Other Virgil by Craig Kallendorf
The Other Virgil tells the story of how a classic like the Aeneid can say different things to different people. As a school text it was generally taught to support the values and ideals of a succession of postclassical societies, but between 1500 and 1800 a number of unusually sensitive readers responded to cues in the text that call into question what the poem appears to be supporting. This book focuses on the literary works written by these readers, to show how they used the Aeneid as a model for poems that probed and challenged the dominant values of their society, just as Virgil had done centuries before. Some of these poems are not as well known today as they should be, but others, like Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest, are; in the latter case, the poems can be understood in new ways once their relationship to the 'other Virgil' is made clear.-
Laughing with Medusa
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
- Sophocles' Antigone in Early Modern English Drama
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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics
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Greek Tragedy on Screen
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Modernist Women and the Greek Chorus
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The Living Death of Antiquity
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Latin Américan Antígonas: An Anthology of Seven Translated Plays
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Classics and Media Theory
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Fragmentary Modernism
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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames
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Childhood and the Classics
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David Jones and Rome
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Roman Receptions of Sappho
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The Irish Classical Self
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Madly after the Muses
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Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity
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Beyond Greece and Rome
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Between Jerusalem and Athens
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Hegel's Antiquity
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Women Classical Scholars
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Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
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Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
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Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity
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Postdramatic Tragedies
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Virgil and his Translators
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Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
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Homer's Daughters
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Son of Classics and Comics
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Film and the Classical Epic Tradition
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Athens in Paris
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Remembering Parthenope
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Romans and Romantics
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Classics and Comics
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The Senecan Aesthetic
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Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
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Homer and the Politics of Authority in Renaissance France
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean
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Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
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Lucretius and the Early Modern
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The Nation and its Ruins
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Victorian Women Writers and the Classics
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The Classics and Colonial India
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Sciences of Antiquity
important, timely and well-written * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
The book [is] one which any student of Virgil will find durable valuable
The book [is] one which any student of Virgil will find durable valuable
Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics, Texas A&M University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780199212361 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199212368 |
| Title | The Other Virgil |
| Author | Craig Kallendorf |
| Series | Classical Presences |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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