A Study of the Poetic Imagination
by
Raymond Kania
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Many scholars have seen ancient bucolic poetry as a venue for thinking about texts and textuality. This book reassesses Virgil's Eclogues and their genre, arguing that they are better read as fiction - that is, as a work that refers not merely to itself or to other texts but to a world of its own...