Lucan and the sublime [electronic resource] : power, representation and aesthetic experience / Henry J.M. Day.
2013
PA6480 .D39 2013
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Title
Lucan and the sublime [electronic resource] : power, representation and aesthetic experience / Henry J.M. Day.
Author
Day, Henry J. M., 1981-
ISBN
9781107020603
9781107306530 (electronic book)
9781107306530 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
x, 262 p.
Call Number
PA6480 .D39 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
873/.01
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Cambridge classical studies
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The experience of the sublime; 2. Representation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile; 3. The Caesarian sublime; 4. The Pompeian sublime; Epilogue.