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Author:

Hock, Jessie, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

234 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Lucretius Carus, Titus--Influence.
Lucretius Carus, Titus--Criticism and interpretation.
Lucretius Carus, Titus.--De rerum natura.--Liber 4.
Lucretius Carus, Titus.
De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus)
1450-1699
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.
Erotic poetry, Latin.
European poetry.
European poetry--Renaissance.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Love poetry, Latin.
Poetics.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0812252721
9780812252729

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1158506584

LCCN:

2020019209

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)