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• catalog abstract ""This book attempts to tell the history of a story, and to show how it is of central importance to western culture because it defines both what 'culture' is and who possesses it," Richard Waswo begins in this impassioned, humane, and compelling reinterpretation of western civilization. The story Waswo refers to is a legend commonly regarded as fact for two millenia: the descent of all European for peoples from emigrant Trojans. But this study, astonishing in its range and fascinating in its vision, does not merely trace the theme through history. Instead, Waswo examines the way the legend influenced western perception and behavior and became embodied in our literature, religion, law, philosophy, history, science, social theory, and film. Implicit in this legend of perpetual colonization, Waswo says, is a distinction between "culture," with its settled agricultural and urbanized communities, and the "savage," with its hunting, gathering, and nomadic pastoralism. Waswo examines the powerful influence of the legend from its first expression in the Aeneid itself to The Faerie Queene to the fiction of Conrad and Forster, and also considers such widely disparate manifestations as the films of John Ford, the defoliation of Vietnam, and the policies of the World Bank. Both polemical and thought-provoking, the book shows how "legendary images defining our civilization determine our conduct toward other cultures: the fictions are both enacted in history and at the same time used to justify such action morally."".
• catalog contributor b10240139.
• catalog coverage "Europe Territorial expansion.".
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description ""This book attempts to tell the history of a story, and to show how it is of central importance to western culture because it defines both what 'culture' is and who possesses it," Richard Waswo begins in this impassioned, humane, and compelling reinterpretation of western civilization. The story Waswo refers to is a legend commonly regarded as fact for two millenia: the descent of all European for peoples from emigrant Trojans. But this study, astonishing in its range and fascinating in its vision, does not merely trace the theme through history. Instead, Waswo examines the way the legend influenced western perception and behavior and became embodied in our literature, religion, law, philosophy, history, science, social theory, and film.".
• catalog description "Ch. 1. The story and the culture -- Ch. 2. Aeneas and agriculture: Roman archaeology -- Ch. 3. The epic of history: Virgil's Aeneid -- Ch. 4. The center of the Aeneid: the arrival of the culture-bringers -- Ch. 5. The legend and the landscape: agri- and other cultures -- Ch. 6. The unfinished city: chronicle histories -- Ch. 7. The city founded: Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Ch. 8. Commerce and culture: patterns of trade and art -- Ch. 9. Everybody's genealogy: forgers and popularizers -- Ch. 10. Epic voyages: poets and colonizers in the sixteenth century -- Ch. 11. The epic of justification: Edmund Spenser -- Ch. 12. Spectacles and sermons: pageants and John Donne -- Ch. 13. Exit history past: neoclassic historiography in England and France.".
• catalog description "Implicit in this legend of perpetual colonization, Waswo says, is a distinction between "culture," with its settled agricultural and urbanized communities, and the "savage," with its hunting, gathering, and nomadic pastoralism. Waswo examines the powerful influence of the legend from its first expression in the Aeneid itself to The Faerie Queene to the fiction of Conrad and Forster, and also considers such widely disparate manifestations as the films of John Ford, the defoliation of Vietnam, and the policies of the World Bank. Both polemical and thought-provoking, the book shows how "legendary images defining our civilization determine our conduct toward other cultures: the fictions are both enacted in history and at the same time used to justify such action morally."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-366) and index.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 373 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0819552968 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0819563048 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England,".
• catalog spatial "Europe Territorial expansion.".
• catalog spatial "Europe".
• catalog subject "909/.09812 20".
• catalog subject "CB245 .W28 1997".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Western History.".
• catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "European literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Historiography Europe History.".
• catalog subject "Landscape in motion pictures.".
• catalog subject "Landscapes in literature.".
• catalog subject "Landscapes in motion pictures.".
• catalog subject "Legends History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Social sciences Europe Philosophy.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The story and the culture -- Ch. 2. Aeneas and agriculture: Roman archaeology -- Ch. 3. The epic of history: Virgil's Aeneid -- Ch. 4. The center of the Aeneid: the arrival of the culture-bringers -- Ch. 5. The legend and the landscape: agri- and other cultures -- Ch. 6. The unfinished city: chronicle histories -- Ch. 7. The city founded: Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Ch. 8. Commerce and culture: patterns of trade and art -- Ch. 9. Everybody's genealogy: forgers and popularizers -- Ch. 10. Epic voyages: poets and colonizers in the sixteenth century -- Ch. 11. The epic of justification: Edmund Spenser -- Ch. 12. Spectacles and sermons: pageants and John Donne -- Ch. 13. Exit history past: neoclassic historiography in England and France.".
• catalog title "The founding legend of western civilization : from Virgil to Vietnam / Richard Waswo.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".