The erotics of materialism : Lucretius and early modern poetics / Jessie Hock.

Author/creator Hock, Jessie author.
Format Book
PublicationPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Description234 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Lucretius Carus, Titus--Influence.
Lucretius Carus, Titus--Criticism and interpretation.
Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura. Liber 4.
European poetry--Renaissance, 1450-1600. --History and criticism.
European poetry--17th century. --History and criticism.
Poetics--History. --16th century.
Poetics--History. --17th century.
Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Erotic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Abstract "This book studies the legacy of Lucretian poetics in Renaissance and early modern vernacular poetry. It emphasizes the seductions of Lucretian poetry because Lucretian thinking on erotics and on poetry occupies the same theoretical terrain, so that accounts of the former illuminate Lucretian thinking on the latter. This book focuses on a less appreciated section of De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), the end of Book 4. It shows that Lucretius's description of erotic fantasy and obsession in Book 4 is central to De rerum natura's wide-ranging discussion of poetics and the imagination, as well as to the reception of those ideas in early modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2020019209
ISBN9780812252729 hardcover
ISBN0812252721 hardcover

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Joyner General Stacks PN1181 .H63 2021 ✔ Available Place Hold