Subjecting Verses : Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real /
The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses p...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Toward a new history of genre: elegy and the real
- 2. The Catullan sublime, elegy, and the emergence of the real
- 3. Cynthia as symptom; Propertius, Gallus, and the boys
- 4. "He do the police in different voices": the Tibullan dream text
- 5. Why Propertius is a woman
- 6. Deconstructing the vir: law and the other in the Amores
- 7. Displacing the subject, saving the text
- 8. Between the two deaths: technologies of the self in Ovid's exile poetry.