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008			120416s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781107020603
020			_a1107020603
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPA6480 _bD273 L 2013
100	1		_aDay, Henry J. M., _9199317
245	1	0	_aLucan and the sublime : _bpower, representation and aesthetic experience / _cHenry J. M. Day.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a262 p.
490	0		_aCambridge classical studies
505	8		_aHKBU Library
520			_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"--
600	0	0	_aLucan, _d39-65 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9199318
650		0	_aSublime, The, in literature. _9199319
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval. _9199320
900			_a = C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c105648 _d105648