Gendered dynamics in Latin love poetry / edited by Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ancona, Ronnie, 1951-

Greene, Ellen, 1950-

Series:

Arethusa books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Latin.

Man-woman relationships in literature.

Feminism and literature--Rome.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--Rome.

Women and literature.

Sex role in literature.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2005]

Summary:

"This volume - focusing specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry - moves beyond the polarized critical positions that such poetry simply either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. From an exploration of the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female, one conclusion becomes clear: the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not translate the cultural and historical norms of Roman society in any single or simple way. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices."--Jacket.

Contents:

I: Male desire and sexuality

Propertian closure : the elegiac inscription of the liminal male and ideological contestation in Augustan Rome / Trevor Fear

(Un)constrained male desire : an intertextual reading of Horace Odes 2.8 and Catullus Poem 61 / Ronnie Ancona

Gender identity and the elegiac hero in Propertius 2.1 / Ellen Greene

Impossible lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Kirk Ormand

II: The gaze

Vision and desire in Horace Carmina 2.5 / Elizabeth Sutherland

Ovid's satirical remedies / Christopher Brunelle

The fixing gaze : movement, image, and gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Patricia Salzman-Mitchell

Facing facts : Ovid's Medicamina through the looking glass / Victoria Rimell

The lover as a model viewer : gendered dynamics in Propertius 1.3 / Hérica Valladares

The lover's gaze and Cynthia's glance / Kerill O'Neill

III: Female subjectivity and silence

Hermeneutic uncertainty and the feminine in Ovid's Ars amatoria : the Procris and Cephalus digression / Phebe Lowell Bowditch

Amor versus Roma : gender and landscape in Propertius 4.4 / Tara S. Welch

Silenced subjects : Ovid and the heroines in exile / Efrossini Spentzou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-361) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gendered dynamics in Latin love poetry.

ISBN:

0801881986

9780801881985

OCLC:

58829449

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