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Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic

Timothy A Joseph

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Description:Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic end of Rome through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. In Thunder and Lament, Timothy Joseph examines how Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as the poetfashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. To accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, collapsing, undoing, and completing tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad andOdyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius.Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic. By focusing on Lucan's effort to surpass the poets of old - a phrase the poet Statius would use of his achievement - this study deepens our appreciation of Lucan'spoetic accomplishment and of the tensions between beginning and ending that lie at the heart of the epic genre. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both thunders and laments, and Joseph argues that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through gestures of thundering poetic violence and alsothrough a transformation and completion of the conventional epic mode of lament. Equipped with these two registers of closure, each engaging and taking aim at epic's primal texts, Lucan positions the Pharsalia as epic's final song.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic. To get started finding Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic end of Rome through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. In Thunder and Lament, Timothy Joseph examines how Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as the poetfashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. To accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, collapsing, undoing, and completing tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad andOdyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius.Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic. By focusing on Lucan's effort to surpass the poets of old - a phrase the poet Statius would use of his achievement - this study deepens our appreciation of Lucan'spoetic accomplishment and of the tensions between beginning and ending that lie at the heart of the epic genre. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both thunders and laments, and Joseph argues that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through gestures of thundering poetic violence and alsothrough a transformation and completion of the conventional epic mode of lament. Equipped with these two registers of closure, each engaging and taking aim at epic's primal texts, Lucan positions the Pharsalia as epic's final song.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic. To get started finding Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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