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Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / Sharon L. James.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Sharon L.
- Series:
- Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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-the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers-as plaint and confession-but rather from the viewpoint of the women-thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation-James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356827
- 9781282356825
- 1282356828
- 9780520928664
- 0520928660
- 9781597347075
- 1597347078
- OCLC:
- 475927170
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