TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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).
AB  - 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).
T1  - The taste for nothingness :a study of Virtus and related themes in Lucan's Bellum civile /
DA  - ©2003.
CY  - Ann Arbor :
AU  - Sklenář, R.
CN  - PA6480
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©2003.
ID  - 1380681
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
KW  - Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
KW  - Nihilism in literature.
KW  - Virtus (The Latin word)
KW  - Virtue in literature.
KW  - 18.46 ancient Latin literature.
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
KW  - Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin.
KW  - Nihilism in literature.
KW  - Virtue in literature.
KW  - Virtus (The Latin word)
KW  - War and literature.
KW  - Virtus
KW  - Pharsalia (Lucanus)
KW  - Virtus (woord)
KW  - Het Goede.
KW  - Virtus (The Latin word)
KW  - Pharsalus, Battle of, Farsala, Greece, 48 B.C.
SN  - 0472113100
SN  - 9780472113101
TI  - The taste for nothingness :a study of Virtus and related themes in Lucan's Bellum civile /
ER  -