Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009225250)

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.

Author: Ullrich Langer
ISBN-10: 1009225251
ISBN-13: 9781009225250
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2023
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d