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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 February 2013
    24 January 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139105750
    9781107020603
    9781108816427
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139105750
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.46kg, 271 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.35kg, 274 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-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 Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, 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 the Bellum Civile's cataclysmic vision 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, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.

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