The Triumph Of Augustan Poetics

Author : Blanford Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590884
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Augustan Poetics written by Blanford Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a general satire which ridicules Protestant, Anglican and Catholic in equal measure, as well as the poetic traditions that supported them. Once the dominant forms of late medieval and Baroque thought - analogical and fideist, a fully symbolic world and an empty wilderness - were erased, a novel space for the imagination was created. Here a 'literalism' new to European thought can be seen to have replaced the general satire, and at this moment Pope and Thomson create a new art of natural and quotidian description, in parallel with the rise of the novel. Parker's account concludes with the ambiguous or hostile reaction to this new mode seen in the works of Samuel Johnson and others.

Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422659
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome written by Nandini B. Pandey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108529917
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome written by Nandini B. Pandey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199587221
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic written by Joseph Farrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Author : Gregory G. Colomb
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271026275
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designs on Truth written by Gregory G. Colomb and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designs on Truth provides a reinterpretation of Augustan poetry, not as works to be defended before the court of Matthew Arnold and the Romantic tradition but as works that examine the rich relationships among text, culture, and world. In Designs on Truth, Gregory Colomb identifies the characteristics of the mock-epic and argues that the form had developed formal expectations. In making this argument, he explains the intentions of the writers of mock-epics, and expands our conception of the interest and significance of such poems. By demonstrating how these poems are supported by the genre's poetics, he brings out ways these poems differ from other &"Augustan&" poems such as the Horatian epistles that are often discussed with them. Designs on Truth puts into question the distinction between history and poetry in the mock-epic, examining it at three levels of poetic structure: fable (global narrative structure), and portraits (characterological narrative structure). Focusing chiefly on the mock-epic's representations in terms of class and &"kind,&" this study returns historical particulars to the central role that the poets had always given them and seeks to understand how they are made poetic. Designs on Truth shows how the poems themselves subvert any easy distinction between historical and poetic particulars. This often philosophical genre is itself a reconsideration of the role of reference (fact) and judgment (value) in representation. This study shows how representation and judgment work in the mock-epic, and how together they stand at the heart of the dominant Augustan poetic. Colomb also provides new readings of the mock-epic, including the first comprehensive reading of The Dispensary since the eighteenth century.

Author : David O. Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521207045
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry written by David O. Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the developing attitude of poets of the first century BC, considering why they came to write as they did.

Author : William Young Sellar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age written by William Young Sellar and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip R. Hardie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198724721
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Irrational written by Philip R. Hardie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the chapters in this volume originated as papers in a colloquium entitled "Augustan Poetry and the Irrational," held at the University of Cambridge from 30 August to 1 September 2012.

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009176072
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Augustan Space written by Monica R. Gale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging exploration of the construction and representation of space and monumentality in central texts of the Augustan period.

Author : Bobby Xinyue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019266848X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry written by Bobby Xinyue and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.