Early modern Latin love poetry / Paul White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Paul, 1978- author.

Series:

Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abstract

Keywords

1 Love Elegy

2 Neo-Catullanism

3 Excursus: Art and Life

4 Petrarchism

5 Mediaeval Presences

6 Virgilian Pastoral and Horatian Lyric

7 Greek Models

8 Women's Writing and Female Voices

9 Philosophical and Spiritual Currents

9.1 Biblical Themes

9.2 Neo-Platonism

9.3 Lucretius

10 Conjugal Love and Family

11 Obscenity

12 Homosexuality

13 Love's Transformations

Metamorphosis and Mannerism

14 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004548077

9004548076