
Lucan and the Sublime
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This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan''s Bellum Civile in terms of the poem''s political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke ...
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This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan''s Bellum Civile in terms of the poem''s political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke ...
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