Description: Virgil's Double Cross : Design and Meaning in the Aeneid, Paperback by Quint, David, ISBN 0691179387, ISBN-13 9780691179384, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
The message of Virgils Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the citys present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empire and one-man rule. In this timely book, David Quint depicts a Virgil who consciously builds contradiction into the Aeneid. The literary trope of chiasmus, reversing and collapsing distinctions, returns as an organizing signature in Virgils writing: a double cross for the reader inside the Aeneids story of nation, empire, and Caesarism.
Uncovering verbal designs and allusions, layers of artfulness and connections to Roman history, Quints accessible readings of the poems famous episodes--the fall of Troy, the story of Dido, the trip to the Underworld, and the troubling killing of Turnus—disclose unsustainable distinctions between foreign war/civil war, Greek/Roman, enemy/lover, nature/culture, and victor/victim. The poems form, Quint shows, imparts meanings it will not say directly. The Aeneids life-and-death issues—about how power represents itself in grand narratives, about the experience of the defeated and displaced, and about the ironies and revenges of history—resonate deeply in the twenty-first century.
This new account of Virgils masterpiece reveals how the Aeneid conveys an ambivalence and complexity that speak to past and present.
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Book Title: Virgil's Double Cross : Design and Meaning in the Aeneid
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Virgil's Double Cross : Design and Meaning in the Aeneid
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, Ancient & Classical
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: David Quint
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
