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Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid
Marilynn Desmond
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Paperback. Series: Mediaeval Cultures S. Num Pages: 296 pages, with 17 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
If we view the Aeneid - the poem of empire, conquest, and male hierarchy - as the West's quintessential canonical text and Latin primer, then the history of Virgil readership should tell us much about the concept of education in the West. In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers responding to medieval cultural and literary texts. In particular, she shows how the story of Dido has been marginalized within canonical readings of the "Aeneid". Reaching back to the Middle Ages, to vernacular poetic readings of Dido, ... Read more
If we view the Aeneid - the poem of empire, conquest, and male hierarchy - as the West's quintessential canonical text and Latin primer, then the history of Virgil readership should tell us much about the concept of education in the West. In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers responding to medieval cultural and literary texts. In particular, she shows how the story of Dido has been marginalized within canonical readings of the "Aeneid". Reaching back to the Middle Ages, to vernacular poetic readings of Dido, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Mediaeval Cultures S.
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816622474
SKU
V9780816622474
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