A Companion to Roman Love Elegy.

By: Gold, Barbara KMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World SerPublisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (609 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118241431Subject(s): Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism | Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Companion to Roman Love ElegyDDC classification: 874/.0109 LOC classification: PA6059.E6 -- C66 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- A COMPANION TO ROMAN LOVE ELEGY -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Reference Works: Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists -- 1. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon -- 2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? -- 3. Propertius -- 4. Tibullus -- 5. Ovid -- 6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 -- PART II Historical and Material Context -- 7. Elegy and the Monuments -- 8. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire -- 9. Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra -- PART III Influences -- 10. Callimachus and Roman Elegy -- 11. Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist -- PART IV Stylistics and Discourse -- 12. Love's Tropes and Figures -- 13. Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract -- 14. The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems -- 15. Translating Roman Elegy -- PART V Aspects of Production -- 16. Elegy and New Comedy -- 17. Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings -- 18. The Domina in Roman Elegy -- 19. "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?" -- 20. Elegy, Art and the Viewer -- 21. Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy -- 22. Gender and Elegy -- PART VI Approaches -- 23. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy -- 24. Intertextuality in Roman Elegy -- 25. Narratology in Roman Elegy -- 26. The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary -- PART VII Late Antique Elegy and Reception -- 27. Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry -- 28. Love Elegies of Late Antiquity -- 29. Renaissance Latin Elegy -- 30. Modernist Reception -- PART VIII Pedagogy -- 31. Teaching Roman Love Elegy -- 32. Teaching Ovid's Love Elegy -- 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy, Part I -- 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy, Part II -- General Index -- Index Locorum.
Summary: A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding.
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Intro -- A COMPANION TO ROMAN LOVE ELEGY -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Reference Works: Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists -- 1. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon -- 2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? -- 3. Propertius -- 4. Tibullus -- 5. Ovid -- 6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 -- PART II Historical and Material Context -- 7. Elegy and the Monuments -- 8. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire -- 9. Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra -- PART III Influences -- 10. Callimachus and Roman Elegy -- 11. Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist -- PART IV Stylistics and Discourse -- 12. Love's Tropes and Figures -- 13. Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract -- 14. The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems -- 15. Translating Roman Elegy -- PART V Aspects of Production -- 16. Elegy and New Comedy -- 17. Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings -- 18. The Domina in Roman Elegy -- 19. "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?" -- 20. Elegy, Art and the Viewer -- 21. Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy -- 22. Gender and Elegy -- PART VI Approaches -- 23. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy -- 24. Intertextuality in Roman Elegy -- 25. Narratology in Roman Elegy -- 26. The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary -- PART VII Late Antique Elegy and Reception -- 27. Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry -- 28. Love Elegies of Late Antiquity -- 29. Renaissance Latin Elegy -- 30. Modernist Reception -- PART VIII Pedagogy -- 31. Teaching Roman Love Elegy -- 32. Teaching Ovid's Love Elegy -- 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy, Part I -- 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy, Part II -- General Index -- Index Locorum.

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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