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Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience
Henry J. M. Day
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hardcover. Argues that Lucan's Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458. Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. 271 pages. Argues that Lucan's Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLA1. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 20. Weight: 458.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107020603
SKU
V9781107020603
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About Henry J. M. Day
Henry Day has taught at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and at Birkbeck, University of London, and has worked as a consultant on classical subjects for the London Review of Books and BBC television. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2011 by Lincoln's Inn and is now pursuing a career as a barrister.
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