Complex inferiorities : the poetics of the weaker voice in Latin literature / edited by Sebastian Matzner and Stephen Harrison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matzner, Sebastian, editor.

Harrison, S. J., editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Classical literature.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Note on Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction: Latin Literature's Complex Inferiorities; 1: Claiming Inferiority: Weakness into Strength; 2: How Do You Solve a Problem like Horace?: On Roman Philhellenism and Post-Colonial Critique; 3: Blackface and Drag in the Palliata; PUNIC WARS; CIVIL STATUS, GENDER, AND COLOUR; BLACKFACE IN THE FORUM ROMANUM; (1) Syrians; (2) Africans; VISUAL EFFECTS; FLAUBERT'S SADNESS.

4: Social Inferiority and Poetic Inferiority-Martial's Revenge in his Epigrams: A Commentary on Martial 5.13POVERTY OF THE POET AND LITERARY VOCATION; ROMAN URBANITY AND SPANISH RUSTICITY; LITERARY IMMORTALITY AND THE 'WEAKER VOICE' OF THE EPIGRAM; CONCLUSION; 5: Drawing Blanks: The Pale Shades of 'Phaedrus' and 'Juvenal'; GAMING THE NAME; SHOOTING BLANKS; DEVELOPING A COMPLEX; 6: The Creative Superiority of Self-Reproach: Horace's Ars Poetica; THE CULTURED CRINGE; HERE'S THE RUB; START AS YOU MEAN TO DRONE ON; GROW UP, AND ACT YOUR AGE; DOWN FROM YOUR HIGH HORSE.

HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE (TO CONCLUDE ...)7: 'The Noise, and the People': Popular clamor and Political Discourse in Latin Historiography; 8: Loud and Proud: The Voice of the praeco in Roman Love Elegy; PRAECONES IN ROMAN LIFE AND HISTORY; PRAECONIUM IN ROMAN LOVE ELEGY; PRAECONIUM IN OTHER CONTEXTS; HORACE; ITEMIZED PRAISE OF THE FEMALE BODY; CONCLUSION; 9: Hidden Voices: Homoerotic Colour in Horace's Odes; INTRODUCTION; LITERARY TRADITION; HORATIAN HOMOEROTICISM IN ODES 1-3; LIGURINUS IN ODES 4; CONCLUSION; 10: On Not Being Beautiful.

11: From Adultery to Incest: Messalina and Agrippina as Sexual Aggressors in Tacitus' AnnalsMESSALINA; AGRIPPINA; 12: The Aeneid as 'Weaker Text' and Fulgentius' Radical Hermeneutics; 13: Cowherds and Saints: Paulinus of Nola Carmen 18; RUSTICUS AND SAINT; THE POET AND THE RUSTICUS; SHARED POVERTY; CONCLUSIONS; References; General Index; Index Locorum.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780191851711

019185171X

9780192543783

0192543784

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99979254397

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