Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy /
This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed--t...
| Основен автор: | James, Sharon L. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2003.
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| Серия: |
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Print version::
Learned girls and male persuasion. |
Съдържание:
- pt. 1
- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy
- Introduction: approaching elegy
- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy
- pt. 2
- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy
- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone
- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy
- pt. 3
- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy
- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid
- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy.