01976cam a2200253 a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002400082100003000106245009600136260006400232300001100296490003200307505001700339520099400356600005701350650004101407650006601448900001501514942001301529999001901542952016101561120416s2013 enk b 001 0 eng  a9781107020603 a1107020603 aSDU00aPA6480bD273 L 20131 aDay, Henry J. M.,919931710aLucan and the sublime :bpower, representation and aesthetic experience /cHenry J. M. Day. aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2013. a262 p.0 aCambridge classical studies8 aHKBU Library a"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"--00aLucan,d39-65xCriticism and interpretation.9199318 0aSublime, The, in literature.9199319 7aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval.9199320 a = C.1 SDU cGBE2lcc c105648d105648 00102lcc406PA6480 D273 L2013708CGB9279112aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-25e2l0oPA6480 D273 L 2013p1000374104r2025-08-25 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-25yGBE