Title Ideology in cold blood : a reading of Lucan's Civil War / Shadi Bartsch

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) Series [Revealing antiquity ; 6] Revealing antiquity ; 6. Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE: The Subject under Siege -- TWO: Paradox, Doubling, and Despair -- THREE: Pompey as Pivot -- FOUR: The Will to Believe -- FIVE: History without Banisters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Is Lucan's epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry, or does it proclaim the meaninglessness of ideology? The author finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the need for, yet suspicion of, ideology Is Lucan's epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that desparingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers an answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.;Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman Republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49BC, Lucan (writing during the reign of Nero) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies - an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry.;In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veternas, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Lucan, 39-65. Pharsalia. Lucain (0039-0065). Guerre civile. SUBJECT Pharsalia (Lucan) fast Subject Epic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Epic poetry, Latin War and literature Pharsalia (Lucanus) Rome -- History -- Civil War, 49-45 B.C. -- Literature and the war Rome (Empire) Rome -- 49-45 av. J.-C. (Guerre civile) -- Littérature et guerre. Rome -- Dans la littérature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674020559 0674020553

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