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Arma Virumque Cano
Au Platane
Author_Fiona Cox
Bellum Civile
Butor's La Modification
Butor’s La Modification
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century
classical reception studies
Dans Ce
dialogism theory
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exile in literature
french
Golden Eyes
intertextual analysis
La Bataille De
Les Nourritures Terrestres
Les Yeux
literature
Lot's Wife
Lot’s Wife
modernist French authors
narrative uncertainty
Nouveaux Romans
Sibyl's Cave
Sibyl’s Cave
Silex
Tu Ne
twentieth
Twentieth Century French Literature
Virgil's Bucolics
Virgil's Georgies
Virgilian influence in French novels
Virgil’s Bucolics
Virgil’s Georgies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755108
- Weight: 382g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study traces Virgil's journey through twentieth-century France by examining his profile in the works of Gide, Aragon, Valery, Pagnol, Klossowski, Butor, Simon and Pinget, and by looking at how their Virgilian appropriations complement and modify current readings of the "Aeneid" and other works. His presence in these works provides insights not only into modern French culture but into the Virgilian oeuvre itself. This process of mutual illumination is highlighted in Cox's argument by theories of intertextuality and dialogism. Although Virgil's presence in French literature is characterized by its focus on exile and uncertainty, Cox's study reaffirms the multivalency of this great European poet and his continuing relevance at the turn of the millennium.
FIONA COX is a Lecturer in French at University College, Cork. Her research interests include the reception of classical poetry and the idea of poetic vocation in nineteenth-century France. She has published on Hermann Broch and Pierre Klossowski.
