Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to MiltonPrinceton University Press, 12. 1. 2021 - 444 strán (strany) Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. |
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... wandering . Put another way , the victors experience history as a coherent , end - directed story told by their own power ; the losers experience a contingency that they are powerless to shape to their own ends . I am thus reexamining ...
... wander , and the Oriental is inevitably addicted to womanizing ( Antony in this respect has simply gone native ) and hence becomes womanish , soft , and pleasure - loving . Numanus taunts the Trojan enemy for their idleness , fancy ...
... wandering upon the seas is , in fact , repeated in Cleopatra's flight from Actium . The queen “ gives ” her sails to the winds she has summoned , and we next see her being passively carried away from the battle by wave and wind . With ...
... wandering ship of Odysseus and to an alternative , looser form of narrative organization that the Odyssey had introduced into epic ; the first half of the Aeneid had explored the implications of this Odyssean model as it traced the ...
... wandering , entangled romance plots . Later in the Furioso , moreover , Ariosto includes a moral allegorization of the voyage of Boiardo's Ranaldo to the island of pleasure . In canto 4 , Ariosto's hero Ruggiero mounts on the back of a ...
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Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid | 50 |
THREE | 99 |
Ercilla and dAubigné | 131 |
FIVE | 213 |
Miltons Politics and Paradise Regained | 325 |
NINE | 343 |
NOTES TO THE CHAPTERS | 369 |
INDEX | 427 |