Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile Hardcover - 1992

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable.Publisher's note: "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. Poetry and civil war in Lucan's 'Bellum Civile' is a book founded on a genuine admiration for Lucan's unique, perverse and spellbinding masterpiece." "Above all, argues Dr. Masters, 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 he offers a fresh and challenging perspective on most of the important issues in Lucanian studies--Lucan's political stance and his attitude to Caesar, his iconoclastic relation to Virgil and the epic tradition, his distortion of history and geography, his inconsistency, his self-destructive narrative technique and, finally, the apparent incompleteness of his poem." "This book is a major re-evaluation, provocative and persuasive, of a central figure in the history of Latin epic."--Jacket xiv, 271 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Rome (Empire); War and literature; Pharsalia (Lucan); Epic poetry, Latin; Caesar, Julius; Literature; ISBN: 0521414601. ISBN/EAN: 9780521414609. Add. Inventory No: 231101HAD2-1103. . 9780521414609