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Agonistic or friendly song exchange in idyllic settings forms the very heart of Roman pastoral. It is also a key means of metapoetic stance-taking on the part of the long line of authors who have cultivated this "traditional" genre. The present book examines the motif of song exchange in Roman bucolic poetry under this double aspect: as a central theme with established or constantly forming sub-themes and paraphernalia (thus providing a comprehensive listing, description and analysis of such scenes in the totality of Roman literature), and as the locus where, thanks to its very traditionality, innovative generic tendencies are most easily expressed. Starting from Vergil, and continuing with Calpurnius Siculus, the Einsiedeln Eclogues and Nemesianus, the book focuses on how politics, panegyric, elegy, heroic and didactic poetry function as guest genres within the pastoral host genre, by tracing in detail the evolution of a wide variety of literary, linguistic, stylistic and metrical features.

Pastoral poetry, Latin --- Pastoral poetry, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. --- History and criticism --- Calpurnius. --- Einsiedeln Eclogues. --- Nemesianus. --- Pastoral. --- Vergil. --- Virgile (0070-0019 av. J.-C.) Bucoliques --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Poésie pastorale grecque

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The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book examines these poems in the light of ancient and modern conceptions of fictionality. It explores how access to this fictional world is mediated by form and how this world appears as an object of desire for the characters within it. The argument culminates in a fresh reading of Idyll 7, where Professor Payne discusses the encounter between author and fictional creation in the poem and its importance for the later pastoral tradition. Close readings of Theocritus, Callimachus, Hermesianax and the Lament for Bion are supplemented with parallels from modern contemporary fiction and an extended discussion of the heteronymic poetry of Fernando Pessoa.

Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Theocritus --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Poetry --- Classical Greek literature --- Theocritus --- Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Greek pastoral poetry --- Greek poetry --- Teócrito --- Teokryt --- Theókritos --- Feokrit --- Theokrit --- Θεόκριτος --- History and criticism. --- Theocritus. --- -History and criticism --- Théocrite --- Theokritos --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Griekse bucolische poëzie. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Théocrite. (Mélanges) --- Poésie pastorale grecque. (Mélanges) --- Theocritus. (Versch. onderwerpen) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pastoral poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Theocritus - Idylls

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Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Pastoral poetry, Classical --- Country life in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Poésie pastorale classique --- Vie rurale dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Theocritus. --- Virgil. --- Myth in literature --- History and criticism --- Theocritus --- Virgil --- Poésie pastorale classique --- Vie rurale dans la littérature --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Classical pastoral poetry --- Classical poetry --- Country life in literature --- Pastoral poetry, Classical - History and criticism --- Theocritus - Idylls --- Virgil - Bucolica

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Pastoral poetry, Greek --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- City and town life --- Country life --- Pastoral poetry, Greek. --- Poetry. --- Poésie pastorale grecque --- Greek pastoral poetry --- Greek poetry --- Poetry --- Alexandria (Egypt) --- Mediterranean Region --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Iskandarīyah (Egypt) --- Alexandrie (Egypt) --- Aleksandriyah (Egypt) --- Alessandria (Egypt) --- Alexandreia (Egypt) --- Aleksandria (Egypt) --- Alexantreia (Egypt) --- Alesandriʼa (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (Egypt) --- الإسكندرية (مصر) --- اسكندرية (Egypt) --- City and town life - Poetry. --- Country life - Poetry