‘The Subtle Tree’: Idolatry and Material Memory in Surrey's Aeneid

Autor:	Edward Wilson-Lee
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Literature Linguistics and Language History Literature and Literary Theory Protestantism business.industry Iconoclasm Exegesis business Ambivalence Elegiac Idolatry Language and Linguistics
Zdroj:	Translation and Literature. 20:137-156
ISSN:	1750-0214 0968-1361
DOI:	10.3366/tal.2011.0015
Popis:	This article looks at the translation (c.1540) of Books 2 and 4 of the Aeneid by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, concentrating on passages of linguistic density which surround descriptions of sacred objects and acts of interpreting and destroying them. Surrey's treatment of these urgently relevant elements of Virgil are deeply ambivalent, partaking both of the righteous iconoclasm of Reformist writers and the elegiac tones of traditionalists, and can be placed in a wider Tudor tradition of typological interpretations of Aeneid 2 by both Protestant and Catholic writers. Surrey's ambivalence is ultimately captured by the fact that his text mourns the loss of material culture while offering itself as a replacement for what has been lost.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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