Reading Virgil and His Texts: Studies in Intertextuality

by Richard Felstead Thomas

There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect each other--through translation, imitation, parody, and other forms of emulation and subversion. Throughout the last two millennia, the Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage, persisting in the works of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney. Richard F. Thomas's new volume demonstrates that such control and manipulation of the inherited tradition is to be found with great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108972
• ISBN13: 9780472108978
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"