At 03:02 PM 9/14/99 -0700, Andre-Paul Itel wrote: >The modern interpretation of Virgil are of a different >nature. Modern interpretations are pretending to build >a signification for the text as a globality, and are >reading each poem, and sometime the whole work as a >closed structure. Moreover, most of the modern >interpretations are searching a philosophical doctrine >hiden inside the text.
Andre-Paul has some good observations here. But I don't understand your point about modern interpretations: how is the search for hidden philosophical doctrine different from the allegorical search for Christian theology? P.S. Could you say more about Hugo's Virgil? (I'm afraid I get most of my Hugo from the movies nowadays.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macalester College Virgil Tradition: discussion, bibliography, &c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
