Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Ullrich Langer, Madison) Langer, Ullrich (University of Wisconsin

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From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose activates our capacities for empathy, equity, irony and reasoning, while educating us in pleasure and helping us comprehend death. Each chapter constitutes a fresh encounter with some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, demonstrating how the lyrical works, and what it elicits in us. Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic ends.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-16
Mått156 x 236 x 16 mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009225250

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Introduction; 1. Orpheus in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca: three variations on lyric humanity; 2. Marot's repeated making and unmaking of death; 3. Time, pleasure, and reasoning: Ronsard's Mignonne, Madame de Lafayette's letter, and Baudelaire's passer-by; 4. Flaubert's lyric happiness (L'Éducation sentimentale, Un Cœur simple) 5. Lyrical recovery and return to the ordinary: Rouaud and Echenoz; Conclusion.