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  1. The erotics of materialism
    Lucretius and early modern poetics
    Author: Hock, Jessie
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    "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... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    "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"--

     

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  2. The erotics of materialism
    Lucretius and early modern poetics
    Author: Hock, Jessie
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2021 A 13546
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2021 A 12670
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    Philologisches Seminar, Bibliothek
    B LUCR 6130
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    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780812252729
    RVK Categories: HI 1144 ; HI 1249 ; FX 164005
    Subjects: European poetry; European poetry; Poetics; Poetics; Love poetry, Latin; Erotic poetry, Latin
    Other subjects: Lucretius Carus, Titus; Lucretius Carus, Titus; Lucretius Carus, Titus: De rerum natura
    Scope: 234 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index