LEADER 03738nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910455190603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02055-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020559 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805642 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050587 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176177 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12023108 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176177 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205836 035 $a(PQKB)10971061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485108 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929823 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485108 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10594922 035 $a(PQKB)11780784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300732 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300732 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331318 035 $a(OCoLC)923117029 035 $a(DE-B1597)574428 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020559 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805642 100 $a20010823d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIdeology in cold blood$b[electronic resource] $ea reading of Lucan's Civil war /$fShadi Bartsch 210 $aCambridge, MA ;$aLondon $cHarvard University Press$d1997 215 $a1 online resource (x,224p.) 225 1 $a[Revealing antiquity ;$v6] 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00550-3 311 $a0-674-44291-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tONE The Subject under Siege -- $tTWO Paradox, Doubling, and Despair -- $tTHREE Pompey as Pivot -- $tFOUR The Will to Believe -- $tFIVE History without Banisters -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIs 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. 330 $bIs Lucan's epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that desparingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers an answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.;Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman Republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49BC, Lucan (writing during the reign of Nero) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies - an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry.;In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veternas, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling. 410 0$aRevealing antiquity ;$v6. 606 $aEpic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism 607 $aRome$xHistory$yCivil War, 49-45 B.C 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEpic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a873.01 700 $aBartsch$b Shadi$f1966-$0173875 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455190603321 996 $aIdeology in cold blood$9702748 997 $aUNINA