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Lucan and the Sublime

Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

By: Henry J. M. Day

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Lucan and the Sublime

Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

By: Henry J. M. Day

This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke and Kant to Freud, Lyotard and Ankersmit the continuing vitality of Longinus' foundational treatise On the Sublime, Day charts Lucan's complex and instructive exploration of the relationship between sublimity and ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. Through the Bellum civile's cataclysmic vision of civil war and metapoetic accounts of its own genesis, through its heated linguistic texture and proclaimed effects upon future readers, and, most powerfully of all, through its representation of its twin protagonists Caesar and Pompey, Lucan's great epic emerges as a central text in the history of the sublime.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107020603

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Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998

By: D. Reguera,J.M.G. Vilar,J.M. Rubi

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Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Proceedings of the XV Sitges Conference, Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 June 1998

By: D. Reguera,J.M.G. Vilar,J.M. Rubi

This book demonstrates the usefulness of tools from statistical mechanics for biology. It includes the new tendencies in topics like membranes, vesicles, microtubules, molecular motors, DNA, protein folding, phase transitions in biological systems, evolution, population dynamics, neural systems and biological oscillators, with special emphasis on the importance of statistical mechanics in their development. The book addresses researchers and graduate students.

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348

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540662456

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9783540662457

Coherent Structures in Complex Systems

Selected Papers of the XVII Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 5–9 June 2000. Preliminary Version

By: D. Reguera,L.L. Bonilla,J.M. Rubi

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Coherent Structures in Complex Systems

Selected Papers of the XVII Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Held at Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 5–9 June 2000. Preliminary Version

By: D. Reguera,L.L. Bonilla,J.M. Rubi

A rich variety of real-life physical problems which are still poorly understood are of a nonlinear nature. Examples include turbulence, granular flows, detonations and flame propagation, fracture dynamics, and a wealth of new biological and chemical phenomena which are being discovered. Particularly interesting among the manifestations of nonlinearity are coherent structures. This book contains reviews and contributions reporting on the state of the art regarding the role of coherent structures and patterns in nonlinear science.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540417052

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Book's by J.M. Rubi

Lucan and the Sublime

Lucan and the Sublime

Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Statistical Mechanics of Biocomplexity

Coherent Structures in Complex Systems

Coherent Structures in Complex Systems

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