10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUCRETIAN»
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Lucretian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Lucretian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of ...
From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and ...
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Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the ...
Abstract: Chapter 1 examines the “CompetingMotions” of the corporeal and
incorporeal souls in Walter Charleton's satirical narrative, The Ephesian Matron (
1659), which features long interpolated digressions on Cartesian and Lucretian ...
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Cosmographia: A Post-
Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic
Poetry. Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC, the latest ground breaking incursion into the ever popular spectacle of the Epic Poem.
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Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge
Discusses the reception of Lucretius' important and influential scientific poem on poets from Virgil and Horace to Milton.
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Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace
And yet the moral weight of the Lucretian image stresses the ethical seriousness
of the Satires: these like the DRN are concerned with the exposition of truth, but
aim to do so through humour and wit rather than philosophical didactic. This wit is
...
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The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
5 Lucretian Networks in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries The
preceding chapters have traced the influence of Lucretius on three humanists
employed in the chancery and in the university in Florence, who developed their
...
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"Dare to be Happy!": A Study of Goethe's Ethics
THE LUCRETIAN RESIGNATION MODEL The kind of resignation that is usually
associated with the Stoics involves the state of ataraxia, which means "
imperturbability." This is a state in which emotions are controlled or suppressed
in ...
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The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in ...
Esolen's detailing of Lucretian influence in Spenser does not take up the line of
thought opened by Greenlaw but extends his project to encompass several other
crucial episodes in the poem that show Lucretian influence. Most important for ...
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Machiavelli and Epicureanism: An Investigation into the ...
This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy.
Robert J. Roecklein, 2012
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After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Theory
Jane Bennett, an avowedly Lucretian political theorist, champions the possibility
of a reenchanted world, refusing the mechanism of a dead atomism for the vitality
of a shared condition.15 Everything that exists —people, things, ideas—is, ...
Janet Halley, Andrew Parker, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUCRETIAN»
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Lucretian is used in the context of the following news items.
Springtime arrivals at Echo Park Lake
Lucretian. April 1, 2015 at 10:08 am. I couldn't possibly agree more. The state “Fishing in the City” program had a stocking plan for this lake as ... «The Eastsider LA, Mar 15»
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: In light of the value of …
So the Lucretian shifts the scope of the argument to consideration of whether death is a bad thing for the person who dies. However, this ... «Practical Ethics, Mar 15»
Earth: Priceless
It is a very similar case to the Lucretian argument that death is not a problem, since when we are dead we do not exist and cannot be harmed. «Practical Ethics, Dec 14»
Review: 'The Confessions of Frances Godwin' by Robert Hellenga
Not just a Lucretian universe of swerving electrons. But something's got to care, doesn't it? There's got to be something at the center. You can't ... «Chicago Tribune, Dec 14»
Cindy and Andy on the Ancient Unconscious
My reading of “Cindy and Andy” with the Lucretian model of the ancient unconscious could offer one possible step—back—in the right direction. «Brooklyn Rail, Jun 14»
Good Friday
But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has ... «Patheos, Apr 14»
Assistant Professor Publishes Book on the Soul
... recently published her second book, “Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul” (Palgrave Macmillan). «High Point University, Oct 13»
How a 2000-year-old poem by a Roman thinker changed the way …
Do we know for a fact that scientists such as Galileo and Darwin, in whose work you find echoes of the Lucretian worldview, in fact read the ... «Haaretz, Feb 13»
Reviving Thomas Browne, an Expert on Oblivion
But Browne's cosmology led him at times by strange gyrations into Lucretian territory. He considered all things in the world — beautiful or ugly, ... «New York Times, Aug 12»
Last Acts: The Swan Songs of Harold Bloom and Philip Roth
Yes, Hart Crane, that poet of “memorable pain,” may once have contended mightily with Shelley, “a Lucretian poet of pleasures so difficult they ... «Tablet Magazine, May 12»
