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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Latijn.
Elegieën.
Liefdesgedichten.
Sex in literature.
Realism in literature.
Erotic poetry, Latin.
Elegiac poetry, Latin.
POETRY > Ancient & Classical.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Poesie erotique latine > Histoire et critique.
Poesie elegiaque latine > Histoire et critique.
Erotic poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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