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Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading And Writing Virgil's Eclogues, Paperback by B...

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Publication Year: 2006 Subject Area: Literary Criticism Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing width: 6.1 in Item Weight: 10.6 Oz Number of Pages: 192 Pages ISBN: 9780715634493 Item Width: 6.1 in Format: Perfect Series: Classical Literature and Society Ser. Type: Textbook height: 0.4 in Item Length: 9.2 in Author: Brian W. Breed Language: English Subject: General, Poetry, Ancient & Classical Book Title: Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading And Writing Virgil's Eclogues Publication Name: Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues Item Height: 0.4 in

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Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading And Writing Virgil's Eclogues, Paperback by B.... Pastoral Inscriptions : Reading And Writing Virgil's Eclogues, Paperback by Breed, Brian W., ISBN 0715634496, ISBN-13 9780715634493, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In a study of the poem cycle by first-century BC Roman poet Virgil, Breed (classics, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) traces implications of voice both as a representative strategy and as a critical metaphor, examines how similarities and differences between speaking and writing are manifested, and discusses the relevance of these issues both to the generic ideals of pastoral and to the evolving place of literature in Roman society. Quotations are in Latin with English translation. Substantially revised from his 1999 dissertation at Harvard University. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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