Approaches to Lucretius (eBook, PDF)

Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura
Redaktion: O'Rourke, Donncha

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Produktbeschreibung

Both in antiquity and ever since the Renaissance Lucretius' De Rerum Natura has been admired - and condemned - for its startling poetry, its evangelical faith in materialist causation, and its seductive advocacy of the Epicurean good life. Approaches to Lucretius assembles an international team of classicists and philosophers to take stock of a range of critical approaches to which this influential poem has given rise and which in turn have shaped its interpretation, including textual criticism, the text's strategies for engaging the reader with its author and his message, the 'atomology' that posits a correlation of the letters of the poem with the atoms of the universe, the literary and philosophical intertexts that mediate the poem, and the political and ideological questions that it raises. Thirteen essays take up a variety of positions within these traditions of interpretation, innovating within them and advancing beyond them in new directions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108390057
• Artikelnr.: 66178136

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Text: 1. Critical responses to the most difficult
textual problem in Lucretius David Butterfield; Part II. Lucretius and his
Readers: 2. Reading the 'implied author' in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Nora
Goldschmidt; 3. Common ground in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Barnaby Taylor;
4. Coming to know Epicurus' truth: distributed cognition in Lucretius' De
Rerum Natura Fabio Tutrone; Part III. The Word and the World: 5. Infinity,
enclosure and false closure in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Donncha O'Rourke;
6. Lucretian echoes: sound as metaphor for literary allusion in De Rerum
Natura 4.549-94 Jason Nethercut; 7. Saussure's cahiers and Lucretius'
elementa: a re-consideration of the letters-atoms analogy Wilson H.
Shearin; Part IV. Literary and Philosophical Sources: 8. Arguing over
text(s): master-texts vs intertexts in the criticism of Lucretius Andrew
Morrison; 9. Lucretius and the philosophical use of literary persuasion Tim
O'Keefe; 10. The rising and setting soul in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3
Emma Gee; Part V. Worldviews: 11. Was Memmius a good king? Joseph Farrell;
12. A tribute to a hero: Marx's interpretation of Epicurus in his
dissertation Elizabeth Asmis; 13. Plato and Lucretius on the theoretical
subject Duncan F. Kennedy.