A Reading of Lucan's "Civil War"
Bartsch, Shadi
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Hardcover
232 pages
Published: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0674442911
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 t
