An edition of Lucan and the sublime (2012)

Lucan and the sublime

power, representation and aesthetic experience

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Lucan and the sublime
Henry J. M. Day
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An edition of Lucan and the sublime (2012)

Lucan and the sublime

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"This is the first systematic study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's epic poem Bellum Civile in terms of political commitment or nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through its representation of the apocalypse of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers, and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, the Bellum Civile emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime"--

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English
Pages
262

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Lucan and the sublime: power, representation and aesthetic experience
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Published in
Cambridge, New York
Series
Cambridge classical studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
873/.01
Library of Congress
PA6480 .D39 2012, PA6480 .D39 2013

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25323538M
ISBN 13
9781107020603
LCCN
2012015309
OCLC/WorldCat
827903082, 793973665, 827785400

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