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Thunder and Lament : Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic by Timothy A. Joseph (2022, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100197582141

ISBN-139780197582145

eBay Product ID (ePID)28050428192

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThunder and Lament : Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic

Publication Year2022

SubjectAncient & Classical, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorTimothy A. Joseph

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width9.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-038640

Reviews"As a comprehensive reading of the poem, Thunder and Lament is a brilliant success and effectively puts Lucan in dialogue with the whole epic tradition. It is also a pleasure to read: its style is clear, and the discussion is consistently illuminating.... Anyone interested in Lucan should read Thunder and Lament; it also has a great deal to teach those interested in Latin literature more generally: it is highly recommended." -- TheClassical Review"The amazing power of this text to shock and to inspire is everywhere made evident in this highly readable and superbly researched book and I defy anyone to read it without being compelled to re-read Lucan's monstrous and mind-expanding poem and see it again with fresh eyes." -- Classics for All"It is a smart and engaging work of Latin literary criticism, from which all scholars and students of Lucan, Roman epic, and Latin literature will profit." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "As a comprehensive reading of the poem, Thunder and Lament is a brilliant success and effectively puts Lucan in dialogue with the whole epic tradition. It is also a pleasure to read: its style is clear, and the discussion is consistently illuminating.... Anyone interested in Lucan should read Thunder and Lament; it also has a great deal to teach those interested in Latin literature more generally: it is highly recommended." -- The Classical Review "The amazing power of this text to shock and to inspire is everywhere made evident in this highly readable and superbly researched book and I defy anyone to read it without being compelled to re-read Lucan's monstrous and mind-expanding poem and see it again with fresh eyes." -- Classics for All "It is a smart and engaging work of Latin literary criticism, from which all scholars and students of Lucan, Roman epic, and Latin literature will profit." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "As a comprehensive reading of the poem, Thunder and Lament is a brilliant success and effectively puts Lucan in dialogue with the whole epic tradition. It is also a pleasure to read: its style is clear, and the discussion is consistently illuminating.... Anyone interested in Lucan should read Thunder and Lament; it also has a great deal to teach those interested in Latin literature more generally: it is highly recommended." -- The Classical Review "The amazing power of this text to shock and to inspire is everywhere made evident in this highly readable and superbly researched book and I defy anyone to read it without being compelled to re-read Lucan's monstrous and mind-expanding poem and see it again with fresh eyes." -- Classics for All, The amazing power of this text to shock and to inspire is everywhere made evident in this highly readable and superbly researched book and I defy anyone to read it without being compelled to re-read Lucan's monstrous and mind-expanding poem and see it again with fresh eyes., "The amazing power of this text to shock and to inspire is everywhere made evident in this highly readable and superbly researched book and I defy anyone to read it without being compelled to re-read Lucan's monstrous and mind-expanding poem and see it again with fresh eyes." -- Classics for All

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal873/.01

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Editions and abbreviations Introduction - "You who will surpass the poets of old" Chapter 1 - Lucan at and against epic's beginnings Chapter 2 - Toppling topoi: epic's violence directed against itself Chapter 3 - The Pharsalia and the end of the Ennian story Chapter 4 - Lucan and the closing of the maritime moment Chapter 5 - The Pharsalia and the loss of nostos Chapter 6 - Epic's last lament Conclusion - Lucan and the living dead Bibliography

SynopsisLucan'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 poet fashions 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 and Odyssey 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's poetic 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 also through 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., 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 poet fashions 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 and Odyssey 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's poetic 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 also through 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., 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 poet fashions 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 and Odyssey 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's poetic 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 also through 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., Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of early Latin epic.

LC Classification NumberPA6480.J67 2022