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Placement, gender, pedagogy: Virgil's fourth Georgic in print *.

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From: Renaissance Quarterly
Date: 20030622
Author:Wallace, Andrew

What assumptions enable a writer to believe that a given utterance, whether didactic or mythic, poetic or paraliterary, can instigate action? Can poetry make anything happen? These questions organize the following discussion, which brings humanist pedagogy, poetics, and print culture to bear on an interpretation of the nymph Cyrene's role in Virgil's Fourth Georgic. The epyllion with which the Georgics concludes uses Cyrene as a means of testing didactic writing, and sets up problems that would ultimately challenge the assumptions and practices of the humanist editors, ...

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