J Farrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Farrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Farrell |
| SIGNATURE | FARRELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7721-9428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflexión sobre "Christus Totus" en San Agustín
Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas by Emily Gowers (review)
Ovid and Mythography
Few, if any, Greek or Latin authors have had greater influence on the reception of classical mythology than Ovid. The Metamorphoses is paramount in this regard, but Ovid’s entire oeuvre engages with mythology and mythography both by anticipating aspects of his magnum opus or by taking a pointedly different approach from it. Two aspects of Ovid’s work are mutually informing but readily distinguishable from each other. First, like other poets, Ovid…
Third Ways
This chapter refers to binary choices, even when choice is difficult, or perhaps especially then, are seductive in their apparent simplicity, compelling because they restrict the number of possible outcomes while promising a definitive resolution. It cites a few dichotomies that encompass all possibilities, and many misrepresent the complexity of how things really are. They also have a way of breaking down into pluralities: dialogue becomes polyp…
Reading Aeneas
This chapter examines Aeneas' personal desire, which is not to do what his fate and the gods require him to do, but to become a proper Homeric hero, and the Aeneid is the story of how he does so. This statement, if true, is full of implications, possibly decisive ones, for the interpretation of the poem as a whole. It addresses which Homeric hero does Aeneas become, how fully does he inhabit this role, when does he begin to do so, and when does h…
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
This book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many scholars regard Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. The book challenges this view, revealing how the Aeneid stages an epic contest to determine which kind of story it will tell—and what kind of hero Aeneas will be. The book shows how this contest is provoked by the transgressive goddess Juno, who challenges Vergil for the soul o…
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell argues, by contrast, that Vergil's aim is not to combine them, but instead to stage a contest to decide which Homeric hero the Aeneid will most resemble. The goddess Ju…
Author and audience in Catalepton
Catalepton presents itself as a work of Vergil’s youth that reflects the time when it is set. It represents Vergil as a belated neoteric and a critic of littérateurs; and it reflects on the downfall of an unnamed individual evocative of Pompey. This chapter argues that such topics have a double frame of reference, speaking both to the collection’s dramatic date and to the time when it was written, probably in the first century AD. The collection …
Remembering Julio-Claudian Emperors as Patrons of Literature
The Julio-Claudian period, beginning with the reign of Tiberius, is one of the more neglected, and even actively disparaged periods in ancient literary history. It tends to be defined exclusively in terms of Latin literature, and not of Greek, and to be considered less as a period than simply as an unstructured stretch of time between the Augustan and Neronian periods. The metaphors most often applied to it run from the relatively generous "fallo…
Virgil’s Intertextual Personae
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The narrative forms and mythological materials of classical epic
The most characteristic themes of Greek and Roman epic are warfare and voyaging. Most epics therefore develop or examine the proposition that 'life is a battle' or that 'life is a journey'. Epic treatments of both themes regard them as consummately heroic undertakings, but may present them either as unproblematically compatible with one another, or else as antithetical or complementary themes. Hercules, for instance, travels the world in what is …
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 44 No. 4
“Children Can’t Learn on an Empty Stomach”: The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program - Husain Lateef and David Androff Do We Know What We Think We Know About Payday Loan Borrowers? Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances - Mary Caplan, Peter A. Kindle, and Robert B. Nielsen “I Play Golf With My Kids, Not My Colleagues:” Politicians, Parenting, and Unpaid Work as a Choice? - Cheryl Najarian Souza The Influence of Socio-cultural Facto…
The Harvard School(s) and Latin Poetry, 1977–91: A Bildungserinnerung
The Harvard School(s) and Latin Poetry, 1977–91:A Bildungserinnerung Joseph Farrell I first encountered the phrase Harvard School not long after Ralph Johnson coined it, at a formative moment, during my initial semester of graduate school in fall 1977. In all candor, I've never before asked myself [End Page 62] what impact the phrase, or whatever reality lies behind it, may have had on me at the time. In doing so now, however, strikes me as a use…
Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues
The first commentaries on Theocritus were written at about the time Vergil was writing the Eclogues. Wendel, the editor of the Theocritus scholia, did not believe that the commentaries from which the scholia derive were available to Vergil or, if they were, that he used them. But a good case can be made that they were and that he did. It is well known that Theocritean commentaries influenced commentaries on the Eclogues, though this influence is …
Camillus in Ovid’s Fasti
The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets
This chapter talks about the fragility of the physical bookroll from a Roman poet's point of view. It focuses on the ways in which the poets, even while recognizing material texts as the vehicle for gaining a wide and lasting audience, repeatedly expressed anxieties over the corruptibility and impermanence of the physical text. The image of the bookroll is linked with the ceremonial presentation copy that associates with anxieties over public rec…
Vergil's Detractors
This chapter contains sections titled: Ipsis inimicitiis gloriosus Self-Fulfilling Prophecy The Unfinished Aeneid Vergil's Language The Curriculum Author par excellence Untranslatable Vergil A Style, But Not a Life Sheer Cluelessness Vergil and Homer Vergil and Dante The Classic of All Europe Conclusion Further Reading
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Ovid's Generic Transformations
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Generic Complications Generic Impurities Beyond Epic vs. Elegy Further Reading
Horace’s Body, Horace’s Books
This chapter attempts to engage in a specific modification of a well-known and widely subscribed-to theory about the representation of the human body in literature and the visual arts. And the Latin text with which the chapter will do these things is that of Horace. It compares two generically distinct and self-contained ‘publications’, namely the first book of Sermones and the first three books of Odes. It addresses the question: What sorts of b…
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, phil…
Lucretian architecture: The structure and argument of the De rerum natura
From the arrangement of individual phrases to the grand structure of the entire poem, Lucretius uses poetic form with economy and imagination to attract the reader's attention and to drive home his philosophical message. In their main lines, the structure and content of the poem's argument derive from earlier Epicurean and other philosophical models, and Lucretius' debts to some of his predecessors are quite detailed. But his handling of this mat…
Big Issues in Small Places
Roman Homer
Latinists are accustomed to measuring Homer’s presence in Rome by his impact on Roman poetry. Epic looms largest in this regard, but most poetic genres can be regarded to some extent as derivatives of Homer. And even outside of poetry, Homer’s impact on Latin letters is not small. But the reception of Homer by Roman culture is a very widespread phenomenon that is hardly confined to literature. Homerising literature in Latin needs to be understood…
The Cambridge Companion to Homer
The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional topics like the Homeric Question, the divine apparatus …
Cheap Talk
Economists often ask how private information is shared through markets, costly signaling, and other mechanisms. Yet most information sharing is done through ordinary, informal talk. Economists are inconsistent in their view of such 'cheap talk': sometimes it is supposed that communication generally leads to efficient equilibria; other times it is supposed that since 'talk is cheap,' it is never credible. The authors think both views are wrong. In…
Classical Genre in Theory and Practice
IT WAS ONCE BELIEVED that the ancients invented and perfected certain genres and that the works they left might serve as models for later writers. Today belief in ideal patterns is a distant memory, and our interest in genre takes other forms. Classicists, by engaging with the specific problems presented by Greek and Roman literature and with the speculative discourse taking place throughout literary studies, have developed very different approac…
Choosing How to Compete: Strategies and Tactics in Standardization
In a network industry, each firm must decide whether or not it wants its product to be compatible with those of rivals. This horizontal compatibility strategy determines whether competition is a battle to establish a standard or the more conventional competition within a standard. The two forms of competition involve different tactics and may differ in the extent to which they dissipate industry profits. In some cases, all firms in an industry ma…
Decentralization, Duplication, and Delay
The authors argue that, although decentralization has advantages in finding low-cost solutions, these advantages are accompanied by coordination problems, which lead to delay or duplication of effort or both. Consequently, decentralization is desirable when there is little urgency or a great deal of private information, but it is strictly undesirable in urgent problems when private information is less important. The authors also examine the effec…
Information and the Coase Theorem
Some economists think the Coase theorem implies a lot about the proper scope of government intervention in the economy and about the welfare consequences of laissez-faire. Others see it as a mere tautology: that if people negotiate efficiently then every outcome will be efficient. The Coase theorem is important only if we believe that efficient negotiation is likely. Of course we can attribute inefficiencies to "bargaining imperfection," but it m…
Why Is Educational Reform so Difficult? Similar Descriptions, Different Prescriptions, Failed Explanations
(2000). Why Is Educational Reform so Difficult? Similar Descriptions, Different Prescriptions, Failed Explanations. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 83-84
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile: The Role of Education in the Destruction of a Revolution
The Lombard League: Regionalism Italian style
Representatives of the the Lega Lombarda sit with the SNP and with Catalan nationalists in the European Parliament, but it is anything but clear whether the Lega is fundamentally at one with regionalist or nationalist movements from other parts of Europe. The Italian variant of democratic politics is always distinct; with exasperating frequency, surface similarities and even shared names conceal profound divergences. The Lega Lombarda has been a …
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
This book, based on the prestigious Martin Lectures, given annually at Oberlin College, offers a major new interpretation of Vergil's Aeneid. Scholars have tended to view Vergil's poem as an attempt to combine aspects of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into a single epic. Joseph Farrell argues, by contrast, that Vergil's aim is not to combine them, but instead to stage a contest to decide which Homeric hero the Aeneid will most resemble. The goddess Ju…
On Learning Civic Virtue: Can Schooling Really Play a Role
Narratives of Identity: The Voice of Youth
(1996). Narratives of Identity: The Voice of Youth. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 235-243
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile
Education and Occupational Attainment in Chile: The Effects of Educational Quality, Attainment, and Achievement
This paper examines the role of education as a determinant of labor market entrance, both independently of and in interaction with other classes of variables, in Chile during the 1970s. Three aspects of "education" are examined: (1) attainment--years of schooling completed; (2) achievement--what students have learned; and (3) quality--as measured for example by textbook availability, school facilities, teacher training, class size. Among the main…
Guttman Scales and Evolutionary Theory: An Empirical Examination Regarding Differentiation in Educational Systems
Educate Our Rising Generation in the Use of Foreign Languages
Societal Differentiation and Educational Differentiation
Comparative education is frequently concerned with the dynamics of educational change and with educational change in the context of social change. One concept widely recognized by social scientists in the study of change but relatively untapped in educational studies is differentiation. In this paper explorations will be made into the nature of societal differentiation and into the meaning and measurement of educational differentiation. A tentati…
Guttman Scales and Evolutionary Theory: An Empirical Examination Regarding Differentiation in Educational Systems
Reinventar la escuela: Alternativas radicales exitosas del sur global
Artículo basado en el análisis de más de 200 programas educativos instalados en escuelas comunitarias en Colombia, México y Bangladesh, a cargo de un equipo internacional de investigadores que desarrollan la teoría “de la base hacia arriba” (grounded theory), aún en ciernes, en este ejercicio de educación comparada. La primera parte presenta algunas de las distinciones clave entre las formas de escolaridad formal y el modelo alternativo emergente…
Education and Occupational Attainment in Chile: The Effects of Educational Quality, Attainment, and Achievement
This paper examines the role of education as a determinant of labor market entrance, both independently of and in interaction with other classes of variables, in Chile during the 1970s. Three aspects of "education" are examined: (1) attainment--years of schooling completed; (2) achievement--what students have learned; and (3) quality--as measured for example by textbook availability, school facilities, teacher training, class size. Among the main…
Standardization, Compatibility, and Innovation
There are often benefits to consumers and to firms from standardization of a product. We examine whether these standardization benefits can trap an industry in an obsolete or inferior standard when there is a better alternative available. With complete information and identical preferences among firms the answer is no; but when information is incomplete this excess inertia can occur. We also discuss the extent to which the problem can be overcome…
Acontius, Milanion, and Gallus: Vergil, Ecl. 10.52-61
In the rambling sequence of thoughts in Ecl. 10.31-69 that expresses the troubled state of the lovesick Gallus, Vergil depicts his friend as proposing to abandon elegy for bucolic poetry, and to take up a pair of activities presumably related to this change. These activities--carving love-messages on trees and hunting--are to some extent typical of the unrequited literary, especially pastoral, lover. But these projects may have more than just a g…
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile: The Role of Education in the Destruction of a Revolution
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile: The Role of Education in the Destruction of a Revolution
Information and the Coase Theorem
Some economists think the Coase theorem implies a lot about the proper scope of government intervention in the economy and about the welfare consequences of laissez-faire. Others see it as a mere tautology: that if people negotiate efficiently then every outcome will be efficient. The Coase theorem is important only if we believe that efficient negotiation is likely. Of course we can attribute inefficiencies to "bargaining imperfection," but it m…
Puzzles: Sylvia, Ice Cream and more
This installment of Puzzles includes answers to all the puzzles presented. The puzzles are titled: “Competition as a Welfare Minimum”; “Externalities Galore”; “The Utility of Ice Cream”; “Congestion Pricing”; and “Are There Pareto Improvements?”
Adorno, Heidegger and Postmodernity
Lucretius, DRN 5.44 Insinuandum
This passage has occasioned, if not proelia , at least divergent interpretations, not to mention instances of tergiversation. In 1910 Cyril Bailey modelled his first rendering of the lines closely on that of H. A. J. Munro: ‘But unless the breast is cleared, what battles and dangers must enter into us in our own despite’; ‘but unless the heart is cleansed, what battles and dangers must then find their way into us in our own despite’. But a reprin…
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile. The Role of Education in the Destruction of a Revolution
The Political Meaning of Educational Change in Allende's Chile: A Reply to a Review by Nibaldo Galleguillos
Learning as Work or Learning as Play
The National Unified School in Allende's Chile
Decentralization, Duplication, and Delay
The authors argue that, although decentralization has advantages in finding low-cost solutions, these advantages are accompanied by coordination problems, which lead to delay or duplication of effort or both. Consequently, decentralization is desirable when there is little urgency or a great deal of private information, but it is strictly undesirable in urgent problems when private information is less important. The authors also examine the effec…
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (‘Purgatorio’, cantos xxix–xxxiii)
Educational Problems and Learning Solutions
(1992). Educational Problems and Learning Solutions. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 231-234
Icarus as Anti-Fascist Myth: The Case of Lauro de Bosis
The Lombard League: Regionalism Italian style
Representatives of the the Lega Lombarda sit with the SNP and with Catalan nationalists in the European Parliament, but it is anything but clear whether the Lega is fundamentally at one with regionalist or nationalist movements from other parts of Europe. The Italian variant of democratic politics is always distinct; with exasperating frequency, surface similarities and even shared names conceal profound divergences. The Lega Lombarda has been a …
D'Annunzio Lettore-Scrittore
Vergil's "Georgics" and the Traditions of Ancient Epic: The Art of Allusion in Literary History
In this important and original new book, Joseph Farrell argues that there is a detailed and extensive program of literary allusion in Vergil's Georgics, moving basically from Hesiod and Aratus in the first book, to Lucretius in the middle two, to Homer in the fourth. This program involves what he calls analytic allusion, namely a reconstruction or interpretation of the texts alluded to; and, he contends, the direction of the allusion, moving from…
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