Description: Darkness Visible: A Study of Virgil's Aeneid, W.R. Johnson, 1979, Softcover Softcover book with no DJ. Good condition for its age. Binding tight. Some edge wear. White parts of the covers are starting to yellowing. Page edges yellowed. Inside, a bit of pencil writing on the inside front end page. No other inside markings. Pages clean but starting to yellowing. 6" x 9". 196 pages index. One of the best books ever written on one of humanity’s greatest epics, W. R. Johnson’s classic study of Vergil’s Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious prehistory of Rome and instead foregrounds Vergil’s enigmatic style and questioning of the heroic myths.With an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, Johnson offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as he focuses on the “somber and nourishing fictions” in Vergil’s poem.
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Book Title: Darkness Visible : a Study of Vergil's Aeneid
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: University of California Press
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
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Publication Year: 1979
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Era: 1990s
Author: W. R. Johnson
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Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Literary Criticism
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
