Approaches to Lucretius

Herausgeber: O'Rourke, Donncha

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421966
• ISBN-10: 1108421962
• Artikelnr.: 59508527

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Text: 1. Critical responses to the most difficult
textual problem in Lucretius David Butterfield; Part II. Lucretius and his
Readers: 2. Reading the 'implied author' in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Nora
Goldschmidt; 3. Common ground in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Barnaby Taylor;
4. Coming to know Epicurus' truth: distributed cognition in Lucretius' De
Rerum Natura Fabio Tutrone; Part III. The Word and the World: 5. Infinity,
enclosure and false closure in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura Donncha O'Rourke;
6. Lucretian echoes: sound as metaphor for literary allusion in De Rerum
Natura 4.549-94 Jason Nethercut; 7. Saussure's cahiers and Lucretius'
elementa: a re-consideration of the letters-atoms analogy Wilson H.
Shearin; Part IV. Literary and Philosophical Sources: 8. Arguing over
text(s): master-texts vs intertexts in the criticism of Lucretius Andrew
Morrison; 9. Lucretius and the philosophical use of literary persuasion Tim
O'Keefe; 10. The rising and setting soul in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3
Emma Gee; Part V. Worldviews: 11. Was Memmius a good king? Joseph Farrell;
12. A tribute to a hero: Marx's interpretation of Epicurus in his
dissertation Elizabeth Asmis; 13. Plato and Lucretius on the theoretical
subject Duncan F. Kennedy.