Table of Contents

The Presence of the Past: Fama and Fata in the Shield of Aeneas; Intertextual Virgil; French Virgilian Criticism and the Importance of Broch; Arma virumque cano: Songs of War; The French Bucoliasts; Translating the Aetieid to the Nouveau Roman: Pierre Klossowski’s Translation; A Modern-Day Aeneas: Virgil’s Journey through Butor’s ha Modification; ‘La Bataille de la phrase’ : Virgil in the Novels of Claude Simon; The Good Shepherd: Virgil in the Novels of Robert Pinget, Conclusion

About the Author

FIONA COX is a Lecturer in French at University College, Cork. Her research interests include the reception of classical poetry and the idea of poetic vocation in nineteenth-century France. She has published on Hermann Broch and Pierre Klossowski.

Reviews

Affirms that Virgil s flexibility and openness to reception has ensured his continuing relevance for writers of widely differing persuasions.--Julian Cowley "The Year's Work in English Studies, 80, 2002, 615 ""

The fine chapters on Pierre Klossowski s controversial Aeneid translation and on the nouveau roman constitute in their grouping a genuine contribution to our understanding of Virgil s postwar reception... the coherence of traditional heroic and imperialistic readings gives way to a postmodern view of Aeneas as exile.--Theodore Ziolkowski "French Studies, LV.2, 2001, 269-70 ""

Wide-ranging and illuminating... In sum, Aeneas Takes The Metro illustrates, if proof were needed, the ability of a well-informed and scholarly comparative study to transcend linguistic, formal and temporal barriers successfully and productively.--Kiera Vaclavik "New Comparison, 31, 2002, 202-3 "