Henry J M Day

Lucan and the Sublime

Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that Lucan's Bellum Civile is a central text in the history of the sublime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781107020603
• ISBN-10: 1107020603
• Artikelnr.: 36138491

Autorenporträt

Henry Day has taught at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and at Birkbeck, University of London, and has worked as a consultant on classical subjects for the London Review of Books and BBC television. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2011 by Lincoln's Inn and is now pursuing a career as a barrister.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The experience of the sublime
2. Representation, the sublime and the Bellum Civile
3. The Caesarian sublime
4. The Pompeian sublime
Epilogue.