Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile pdf/epub/kindle/txt ebooks
By:Jamie Masters
Published on 1992-03-12 by Cambridge University Press
Download
Lucan is the wild maverick among Latin epic poets. Sneered at for over a century for failing to conform to humanist canons of taste and propriety, in recent years his work has been gaining in reputation. This 1992 book is founded on a genuine admiration for Lucan's unique, perverse, and spellbinding masterpiece. Above all, Dr Masters argues, the poem is obsessed with civil war, not only as the subject of the story it tells, but as a metaphor which determines the way that story is told. In these pages, he discusses in detail a number of selected episodes from the poem which illustrate this principle, and on this basis offers challenging perspective on most of the important issues in Lucanian studies such as Lucan's political stance, his attitude to Caesar, his iconoclastic relation to Virgil and the epic tradition and his distortion of history and geography. This book is a major re-evaluation, provocative and persuasive, of a central figure in the history of Latin epic.
This Book was ranked at 28 by Google Books for keyword Poetry.
Book ID of Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile's Books is QuSJbswoxG4C, Book which was written byJamie Mastershave ETAG "k6P2q0ATKNE"
Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 1992-03-12 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780521414609 and ISBN 10 Code is 0521414601
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "271 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory
This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile Book Preview - PDF - EPUB - KINDLE - TXT
Download
Comments
Post a Comment