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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455190603321

Autore

Bartsch Shadi <1966->

Titolo

Ideology in cold blood [[electronic resource] ] : a reading of Lucan's Civil war / / Shadi Bartsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-674-02055-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x,224p.)

Collana

[Revealing antiquity ; ; 6]

Disciplina

873.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE The Subject under Siege -- TWO Paradox, Doubling, and Despair -- THREE Pompey as Pivot -- FOUR The Will to Believe -- FIVE History without Banisters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is Lucan's epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry, or does it proclaim the meaninglessness of ideology? The author finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the need for, yet suspicion of, ideology.