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Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / Sharon L. James.
LIBRA PA6059.E6 J36 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Sharon L.
- Series:
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Elegiac poetry, Latin.
- Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Love poetry, Latin.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Women--Books and reading--Rome.
- Women.
- Women and literature--Rome.
- Women and literature.
- Books and reading--Rome.
- Books and reading.
- Sex role in literature.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric).
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 350 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- This book does a bold and utterly original thing by reading the Roman love poets from the point of view of the women the poets speak to or about.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-335) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0520233816
- OCLC:
- 50143451
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