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UNINA9910462594303321 |
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Day Henry J. M. <1981-> |
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Titolo |
Lucan and the sublime : power, representation and aesthetic experience / / Henry J.M. Day [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-30144-0 |
1-107-23565-0 |
1-107-30565-9 |
1-107-30653-1 |
1-107-31208-6 |
1-299-00901-8 |
1-107-31428-3 |
1-139-10575-2 |
1-107-30873-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge classical studies |
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Sublime, The, in literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Introduction -- 1. The experience of the sublime -- 2. Presentation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile -- 3. The Caesarian sublime -- 4. The Pompeian sublime -- Epilogue. |
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This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-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 Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, 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 the Bellum Civile's cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own |
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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, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime. |
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UNINA9910452200903321 |
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Killingsworth M. Jimmie |
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Titolo |
Walt Whitman and the Earth [[electronic resource] ] : A Study of Ecopoetics |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Ecology in literature |
Nature in literature |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history |
American Literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Whitman?; 1. Things of the Earth; 2. The Fall of the Redwood Tree; 3. Global and Local, Nature and Earth; 4. The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore; 5. Urbanization and War; 6. Life Review; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light |
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of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experien |
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