AESTH INTP 21 - Virgil: Poetry and Reception

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Harvard University

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Begins with the Aeneid, paradigmatic epic of the West, from various perspectives, involving literary aesthetics and translation theory, Homeric and other intertextuality, concepts of heroism and anti-heroism, individual choice vs. public responsibility, critique of empire then, now, and in between. Concurrent attention to Virgil tradition in early Christianity, Dante, Milton, Dryden, the Romantics, post-WWI Modernists; influence on music, art, and iconography. Subsequent focus on the Eclogues and Georgics, their place in the traditions of European pastoral and didactic, status as works of early Augustan poetry, and reception from Petrarch to Heaney.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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