The pipes of Pan : intertextuality and literary filiation in the pastoral tradition from Theocritus to Milton / Thomas K. Hubbard.
1998
PA3022.P3 H83 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
The pipes of Pan : intertextuality and literary filiation in the pastoral tradition from Theocritus to Milton / Thomas K. Hubbard.
Author
Hubbard, Thomas K.
ISBN
0472108557 (alk. paper)
9780472108558 (alk. paper)
9780472108558 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
vi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PA3022.P3 H83 1998
Summary
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.
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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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-370) and indexes.
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Table of 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.
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.