<x-rich>>Hello Virgil scholars,
> I am still a high school student at Tatnall School in Wilmington. I am
>currently taking AP Virgil, and as my term paper, I am researching the
>influence that Virgil has had on post- modern literature. I would greatly
>appreciate any help that anyone could give me in the form of related
>websites, periodicals, books, or any other kind of resource. In return, if
>you are interested, I would gladly send you a copy of the paper when I am
>finished.
> Thank you for your help,
> -Jeff
In response to Mr. White's question, "It would help, though, to know what you classify as post-modern literature," I have included a posting from alt.postmodern.
Dr. Karol Wójtyla writes in FIDES ET RATIO:
(§91) ...
Our age has been termed by some thinkers the age of POSTMODERNITY. Often used in very different contexts, the term designates the emergence of a complex of new factors which, widespread and powerful as they are, have shown themselves able to produce important and lasting changes. The term was first used with reference to aesthetic, social and technological phenomena. It was then transposed into the philosophical field, but has remained somewhat ambiguous, both because judgment on what is called POSTMODERN is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, and because there is as yet no consensus on the delicate question of the demarcation of the different historical periods. One thing however is certain: the currents of thought which claim to be postmodern merit appropriate attention. According to some of them, the time of certainties is irrevocably past, and the human being must now learn to live in a horizon of total absence of meaning, where everything is provisional and ephemeral. In their destructive critique of every certitude, several authors have failed to make crucial distinctions and have called into question the certitudes of faith.
This nihilism has been justified in a sense by the terrible experience of evil which has marked our age. Such a dramatic experience has ensured the collapse of rationalist optimism, which viewed history as the triumphant progress of reason, the source of all happiness and freedom; and now, at the end of this century, one of our greatest threats is the temptation to despair.
Even so, it remains true that a certain positivist cast of mind continues to nurture the illusion that, thanks to scientific and technical progress, man and woman may live as a demiurge, single-handedly and completely taking charge of their destiny.
Thank yous to Mr. White and Dr. Helen Conrad-O'Briain for your help. -------------------------------------
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I don't think that Hermann Broch could rightly be called a post-modern writer, but _The Death of Virgil_ is essential for any inquiry into the meaning of Virgil in the 20th century.
TCM
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