03738nam 2200673Ia 450 991045519060332120200520144314.00-674-02055-310.4159/9780674020559(CKB)1000000000805642(StDuBDS)AH23050587(SSID)ssj0000176177(PQKBManifestationID)12023108(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176177(PQKBWorkID)10205836(PQKB)10971061(SSID)ssj0000485108(PQKBManifestationID)11929823(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485108(PQKBWorkID)10594922(PQKB)11780784(MiAaPQ)EBC3300732(Au-PeEL)EBL3300732(CaPaEBR)ebr10331318(OCoLC)923117029(DE-B1597)574428(DE-B1597)9780674020559(EXLCZ)99100000000080564220010823d1997 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrIdeology in cold blood[electronic resource] a reading of Lucan's Civil war /Shadi BartschCambridge, MA ;London Harvard University Press19971 online resource (x,224p.) [Revealing antiquity ;6]Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-00550-3 0-674-44291-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIs 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.Is Lucan's epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that desparingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers an answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.;Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman Republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49BC, Lucan (writing during the reign of Nero) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies - an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry.;In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veternas, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling.Revealing antiquity ;6.Epic poetry, LatinHistory and criticismRomeHistoryCivil War, 49-45 B.CElectronic books.Epic poetry, LatinHistory and criticism.873.01Bartsch Shadi1966-173875MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455190603321Ideology in cold blood702748UNINA