The taste for nothingness : a study of Virtus and related themes in Lucan's Bellum civile / R. Sklenář.

0472113100 (acid-free paper)
9780472113101 (acid-free paper)

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2003.

English

viii, 158 pages ; 24 cm

PA6480 .S58 2003

Sklenar (classical studies, Tulane U.) partly adopts the currently orthodox view of Roman poet Lucan (39-65), but also presents views that he says are a bit heretical because more traditional. The fundamental weaknesses in both recent and earlier studies, he declares, are the neglect of close reading, the assumption that Lucan can only describe chaos by being chaotic, and considerable slackness in the definition of the term nihilistic by people who attribute it to him. The study is revised from his 1996 dissertation. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.

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