Learned Girls and Male Persuasion : Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Sharon L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intellectuelen.
Vrouwen.
Latijn.
Elegieën.
Liefdesgedichten.
Women in literature.
Women > Books and reading.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Love poetry, Latin.
Elegiac poetry, Latin.
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Livres et lecture > Rome.
Femmes et litterature > Rome.
Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la litterature.
Poesie d'amour latine > Histoire et critique.
Poesie elegiaque latine > Histoire et critique.
Books and reading > Rome.
Women and literature > Rome.
Women > Books and reading > Rome.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Love poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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