01803cam a2200241 a 4500 120416s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 9781107020603 1107020603 SDU PA6480 D273 L 2013 Day, Henry J. M., 199317 Lucan and the sublime : power, representation and aesthetic experience / Henry J. M. Day. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 262 p. Cambridge classical studies HKBU Library "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"-- Lucan, 39-65 Criticism and interpretation. 199318 Sublime, The, in literature. 199319 LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval. 199320 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 105648 105648 0 0 lcc 0 PA6480 D273 L2013 0 CGB 279112 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-25 2 0 PA6480 D273 L 2013 1000374104 2025-08-25 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-25 GBE