FEELING HISTORY: LUCAN, STOICISM, AND THE POETICS OF PASS
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (637 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814210430 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Working from a fine-grained analysis of one formal aspect of the poem, Lucan’s use of the literary trope of apostrophe, the author goes on to investigate what the use of apostrophe might indicate about the philosophical outlook of Lucan’s dark picture of the Civil War and the Empire that grew out of it.” —Catherine Connors, University of Washington. “This book is a well-researched discussion of Lucan’s extremely challenging poem on the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
The philosophical vision that Lucan finds intellectually and aesthetically compelling does not insulate his characters (and readers) from suffering, nor does it excuse them from wrongdoing. Rather, it obligates them to confront the responsibilities and limits of acting morally in a chaotic world.. At the same time, the reader is confronted with the ends and limits of the aesthetic enterprise in general. Lucan’s long-acknowledged political engagement must therefore be connected to his philosophical and aesthetic stance. To this end, Francesca D’Alessandro Behr studies the ways in which the narrator communicates ethical and moral judgments. Lucan’s