TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Lyric humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
A1  - Langer, Ullrich, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5647723
AB  - "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 activate 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"--
SN  - 978-1-009-22525-0 kovakantinen
SN  - 978-1-009-22524-3 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Europeisk litteratur : historia
KW  - Humanity in literature.
KW  - European literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Literature : Philosophy.
KW  - Medmänsklighet : i litteraturen
KW  - Litteratur : teori, filosofi
KW  - kirjallisuudentutkimus
KW  - kirjallisuuskritiikki
KW  - ihmisyys
ER  -