Lucan and the sublime : power, representation and aesthetic experience / Henry J.M. Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Henry J. M., 1981- author.

Series:

Cambridge classical studies.

Cambridge classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lucan, 39-65--Criticism and interpretation.

Lucan.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Lucan & the Sublime

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The experience of the sublime

2. Presentation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile

3. The Caesarian sublime

4. The Pompeian sublime

Epilogue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-30144-0

1-107-23565-0

1-107-30565-9

1-107-30653-1

1-107-31208-6

1-299-00901-8

1-107-31428-3

1-139-10575-2

1-107-30873-9

OCLC:

827210339