Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique - Hardcover

Dinter, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472118501 ISBN 13: 9780472118502

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2013

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Book by Dinter Martin

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"[An] impressive and learned study that largely succeeds in its attempt to explore and explain the most striking features of Lucan's poetic artistry." --Religious Studies Review--Religious Studies Review "[Anatomizing Civil War] is a highly interesting must-read for Lucanists, as well as anyone with a rigorous interest in Lucan's place in the epic tradition." --New England Classical Review--Se n Easton, Gustavus Adolphus College "New England Classical Review " "Dinter's study contains a stimulating reading of Lucan's epic with many noteworthy individual points ... and opens up promising perspectives for future work, not least on the reception of Lucan's epic." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review--Annemarie Amb hl, Leiden University; Johannes Gutenberg-Universit t Mainz "Bryn Mawr Classical Review "

Reseña del editor:

Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero. This maverick but socially prominent poet, whom Nero commanded to commit suicide at the age of 26, left an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey that epitomizes the exuberance and stylistic experimentation of Neronian culture. This study focuses on Lucan's epic technique and traces his influence through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Martin Dinter's newest volume engages with Lucan's use of body imagery, sententiae, Fama (rumor), and open-endedness throughout his civil war epic. Although Lucan's Bellum Civile is frequently decried as a fragmented as well as fragmentary epic, this study demonstrates how Lucan uses devices other than teleology and cohesive narrative structure to bind together the many parts of his epic body. Anatomizing Civil War places at center stage characteristics of Lucan's work that have so far been interpreted as excessive, or as symptoms of an overly rhetorical culture indicating a lack of substance. By demonstrating that they all contribute to Lucan's poetic technique, Martin Dinter shows how they play a fundamental role in shaping and connecting the many episodes of the Bellum Civile that constitute Lucan's epic body. This important volume will be of interest to students of classics and comparative literature as well as literary scholars. All Greek and Latin passages have been translated.

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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0472118501
• ISBN 13: 9780472118502
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200