IDEOLOGY IN COLD BLOOD by Bartsch, Shadi ISBN 0674005503
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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; and the redemptive power of storytellings.
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. Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49 B.C., Lucan recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of a tragic defeat, the language of his epic is less heroic and tragic than violent and nihilistic. In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt to Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veterans, 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.
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IDEOLOGY IN COLD BLOOD
[edit] Author
Bartsch, Shadi
[edit] ISBN
0674005503
[edit] Published
08/05/2001
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Harvard University Press
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paperback
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14.95 (GBP)
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