Ideology in Cold Blood - A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War

Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

List of contents

* Preface * Introduction * The Subject under Siege * Paradox, Doubling, and Despair * Pompey as Pivot * The Will to Believe * History without Banisters * Notes * Bibliography * Index

About the author

Shadi Bartsch, Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, is the author of Actors in the Audience.

Summary

Is Lucan’s brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet’s magnum opus.

Product details

• Authors: Shadi Bartsch
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2001
• EAN: 9780674005501
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00550-1
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 200 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Series: Reading of Lucan's Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, Latin, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Political ideologies and movements, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form