The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua - Hardcover

Timothy C. Brown (author)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806132523 ISBN 13: 9780806132525

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001

Synopsis

Vergil’s Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem’s fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive.An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poem’s historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations.

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy C. Brown is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. From 1987 to 1990, he was senior liaison to the Contras in Central America for the U.S. State Department.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0806132523
• ISBN 13: 9780806132525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352