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The pipes of Pan : intertextuality and literary filiation in the pastoral tradition from Theocritus to Milton

Departing from conventional views of the pastoral genre as an Arcadian escape from urban sophistication, The Pipes of Pan highlights its genesis in the allusive and polemical literary cultures of Alexandria and Rome. Both cities placed great emphasis upon learned invocation and reformulation of poetic models. The pastoral metaphor provided Theocritus and Vergil with tools for representing the contests and confrontations of poets and genres, the exchange of ideas among poets, and poets' reflections on the efficacy of their works
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472108558, 0472108557
39671908
Poetic succession and the genesis of Alexandrian bucolic
Vergil's revisionary progression
In Vergil's shadow: later Latin pastoral
Tityrus in the Middle Ages
Renaissance refashionings: the future as fragment of the past