Name: Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)
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Author: Matthew Leigh
ISBN: 9780198150671

portada Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Oup Oxford

Autor

Matthew Leigh

Año

1997

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0198150679

ISBN13

9780198150671

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Ficción infantil y juvenil: general

Lucan: Spectacle and Engagement (Oxford Classical Monographs) (en Inglés)

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The Pharsalia, Lucan's epic on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is a document of fundamental importance for students of the history and literature of Rome in the early imperial period. Whether one is a historian of the Republican opposition to Nero, or a literary critic teasing out the ideological implications of intertextuality, it is impossible to ignore this poem. Taking as his guiding theme the unusual prominence of spectacle and spectators in the Pharsalia - the tendency of either the narrator to represent complicity with or apathy towards the action of various charactyers as that of one who watches and does not engage, or of individual characters to celebrate the actions which they undertake by turning them into theatrical displays for others to watch - Dr Leigh demonstrates the importance of this phenomenon for narrative, and intertextual concerns as well as for history and socio-political matters. He shows how Lucan can take devices characteristic of Virgilian narrative and transform them to launch an attack on the Augustan ideology of the Aeneid and produce a savagely Republican anti-Aeneid which represents the civil wars as the death of Rome. By studying the tension between the narrator's impassioned interventions and his characters' often manic zeal to transform civil war into performance, this work discovers a Lucan who is as funny as he is serious, as reflective as he is committed.