Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert Langer Ullrich
Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert Langer Ullrich From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to…
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Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert Langer Ullrich
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. 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. 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.
Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic