Lucan and the Sublime : Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience
ISBN: 9781107020603 | 1107020603
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2013
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This is the first systematic study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, the book 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, it charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relat... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The experience of the sublime | |
| Representation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile | |
| The Caesarian sublime | |
| The Pompeian sublime | |
| Epilogue | |
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