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The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante, Spenc
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Paperback. Clean and solid. Ships from a smoke-free home.”
- ISBN
- 9780691227177
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691227179
ISBN-13
9780691227177
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057246244
Product Key Features
Book Title
Return of Proserpina : Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-005103
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Spence tells her story with a sure sense of forward direction and ultimate destination made all the more compelling by the significant twists and turns that occur at every stage. Readers of many different backgrounds and interests will enjoy the journey, and virtually everyone will benefit from the immense range of learning that sustains both the story and the reader every step of the way. . . . It is [a] book to be read widely and thoroughly by readers open to reflection and inspiration." ---Joseph Farrell, Vergilius
Dewey Decimal
808.80382922114
Synopsis
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of the underworld. The Return of Proserpina takes readers from Roman antiquity to the late Middle Ages to explore how the Mediterranean island offered authors a setting for forces resistant to empire and a location for displaying and reclaiming what has been destroyed. Using the myth of Proserpina as a through line, Sarah Spence charts the relationship Western empire held with its myths and its own past. She takes an in-depth, panoramic look at a diverse range of texts set on Sicily, demonstrating how the myth of Proserpina enables a discussion of empire in terms of balance, loss, and negotiation. Providing new readings of authors as separated in time and culture as Vergil, Claudian, and Dante, Spence shows how the shape of Proserpina's tale and perceptions of the island change from a myth of loss to one of redemption, with the volcanic Mt. Etna playing an increasingly central role. Delving into the ways that myth and geography affect politics and poetics, The Return of Proserpina explores the power of language and the written word during a period of tremendous cultural turbulence.
LC Classification Number
PN57.P45S64 2023
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