A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

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Barbara K. Gold
John Wiley & Sons, Apr 25, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 608 pages
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

 

Selected pages

Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Dynamics of the Elegiac
Catullus the Roman Love Elegist?
Propertius
Tibullus
2
Ovid
Literary
The Domina in Roman Elegy
Conclusion
Social Reality
Elegy Art and the Viewer
Gender and Elegy
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman
Intertextuality in Roman Elegy

Corpus Tibullianum Book 3
Elegy and the Monuments
Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire
The View from
Callimachus and Roman Elegy
The First Roman Love Elegist
Loves Tropes and Figures
Opposites Attract
Patterns and Problems
Translating Roman Elegy
Elegy and New Comedy
Narratology in Roman Elegy
The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary
Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post
Love Elegies of Late Antiquity
Renaissance Latin Elegy
ANTHOLOGIES
Teaching Roman Love Elegy
Teaching Ovids Love Elegy
Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy Part I
Campuses
Index Locorum

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2012)

Barbara K. Gold is Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. She is the editor of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (1982), author of Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome (1987), co-editor of Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition (1997), co-editor of Roman Dining: A Special Issue of American Journal of Philology (2005), and author of Perpetua: A Martyr’s Tale (2012). She has published widely on satire, lyric and elegy, feminist theory and late antiquity.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Roman Love Elegy
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
EditorBarbara K. Gold
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN1118241436, 9781118241431
Length608 pages
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History / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
  
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