In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls "analytic" allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from Hesiod (and perhaps Alexandrian poetics) toward Homer and heroic epic, helps to clarify the development of Vergil's poetic career, which moves from the Callimacheanism of the Eclogues to the full-fledged epic of the Aeneid. Applying to the Georgics the full range of recent scholarly methodology, Farrell's pathbreaking book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of Vergil, classical literature, and literary allusion.

Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: The Art of Allusion in Literary History

History

Farrell, Joseph

World

Oxford University Press

Examines the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo and his wife and collaborator Franca Rame. The couple's work draws strength from the old Italian traditions of the harlequin and Commedia del'Arte, and transforms them into popular instruments of contemporary political theatre.

Dario Fo and Franca Rame : Harlequins of the Revolution

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Dario Fo & Franca Rame Theatre Politics

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

This text prepares readers for the writing skills needed in their personal and business lives by focusing on the functional use of the language. It contains authentic writing models and realia from magazines, newspapers and ads. Each writing skill is taught within a cultural and functional context. Updated to include more grammar and a web site for electronic web-based activities.

Composición Práctica (Spanish and English Edition)

Reference

Gonzalez, Trinidad

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Write on. Online, that is! In wide use in conversation and composition courses at the intermediate and post intermediate levels and offering completely integrated internet-based discussion and writing activities, Composición práctica: Conversación y repaso is the only book of its kind. Practical and hands on, and based on an error analysis of hundreds of fourth and fifth semester writing assignments and conferences with undergraduate students about topics they want to explore, investigate, converse on, and write about, Composición práctica features authentic language models appropriate to each topic presented. Each chapter presents one grammar point that is specifically related to the chapter's central task. Composición práctica offers a variety of readings, discussion, and written activities, both individual and group and the student-friendly format enhance the underlying effectiveness of the book. It is a highly flexible text. Most units of the book are self-contained, allowing instructors to customize it to the particular needs of any fourth, fifth, or sixth semester course.

Composición práctica, Conversación y repaso

GonzÃ¡lez, Trinidad

Foreign Language Study & Reference

wiley

Using a practical approach to writing, this invaluable text guides students through the most basic elements of composition, teaching them to write effectively. Each chapter focuses on a grammatical point students find problematic. Realia and authentic writing models are used as a basis for varied individual and group writing activities. Features numerous examples of personal and business letters, resumes, descriptions, brief narrations and expository essays. Contains an introductory chapter on the dictionary, a correction key and appendices on punctuation, capitalization, accentuation and syllabification.

Composici?n pr?ctica

Gonz?lez, Trinidad

Literature & Fiction

The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.

Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.

The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)

The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects. Hal Varian outlines the basic economics of these industries while Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro describe the impact of these factors on competition policy. The volume is an ideal introduction for undergraduate and graduate students in economics, business strategy, law and related areas.

Business & Money

Varian, Hal R.

Shapiro, Carl

Economics

Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Martin Classical Lectures)

A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero This compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell--and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. Farrell shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul of his hero and poem. Her goal is to transform the poem into an Iliad of continuous Trojan persecution instead of an Odyssey of successful homecoming. Farrell discusses how ancient critics considered the flexible Odysseus the model of a good leader but censured the hero of the Iliad, the intransigent Achilles, as a bad one. He describes how the battle over which kind of leader Aeneas will prove to be continues throughout the poem, and explores how this struggle reflects in very different ways on the ethical legitimacy of Rome's emperor, Caesar Augustus. By reframing the Aeneid in this way, Farrell demonstrates how the purpose of the poem is to confront the reader with an urgent decision between incompatible possibilities and provoke uncertainty about whether the poem is a celebration of Augustus or a melancholy reflection on the discontents of a troubled age.

Princeton University Press

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Books by Farrell, Joseph

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Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: The Art of Allusion in Literary History

Dario Fo and Franca Rame : Harlequins of the Revolution

Dario Fo & Franca Rame Theatre Politics

Composición Práctica (Spanish and English Edition)

Composición práctica, Conversación y repaso

Composici?n pr?ctica

Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)

Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Martin Classical Lectures)