The gendered 'I' in ancient literature : modelling gender in first-person discourse / edited by Lisa Cordes, and Therese Fuhrer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cordes, Lisa, editor.

Fuhrer, Therese, editor.

Series:

Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes

Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes ; v.18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (420 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Language Note:

English, German, French, and Italian texts.

Summary:

The series Philologus. Supplemente / Philologus. Supplementary Volumes publishes monographs and edited volumes pertaining to all aspects of the study of ancient literature and its reception, with a special focus on interdisciplinary approaches, combining Classics with Literary and Cultural Studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Gender-Specific Elements in First-Person Statements in Classical Literature

I The Rhetorics of a Gendered ‘I’

The Gender and Third-Person Parameter in the Shaping of First-Person Discourse in Roman Literature

Construire un « je » genré dans les traductions de Catulle (c. 51 et 66) : Érotique de l’appropriation littéraire et féminisation rétrospective des modèles grecs

Virgo, virago, Vestal – Gender and Fiction in Seneca the Elder’s Controversia 1.2

II Gendering a Non-Human ‘I’

Pythia poetrix? Oracular Polyphony between Poetic Collaboration and Delphic Politics

Costruire un ‘io’ divino: Ovidio e le dee

In Memory of Reading Matrons and Eloquent Dogs: Female Voices and Role Constructions in Martial’s Epigrams 10.63 and 11.69

III The Gendered ‘I’ in Choral Lyric and Tragedy

Making Men: Gender and the Poet in Pindar

A Theatre of Vulnerability: Lamentation as a Gendered Self-Narration in Sophocles’ Antigone

A Female View of the Tragic Action: On the Function of Collective First-Person Statements in the Women’s Choruses in the (ps.-)Senecan Tragedies Troades and Hercules Oetaeus

IV The Gender Parameter in Erotic First-Person Discourse

Elle sait. Elle dit. Elle rit. L’éloge paradoxal d’éros par Diotime de Mantinée

Gender und Rollen in Horaz carm. 1,13

Enquête sur l’identité du « je » féminin de l’élégie 3.11 du Corpus Tibullianum : méthodes et conjectures

V The Gender Parameter in Ovidʼs First-Person Discourse

Living to Tell the Tale: Male and Female First-Person Narrators of Metamorphosis

Autofiction al femminile. Arte di raccontare ed effetti di genere in Ovidio

Gender and Genre in First-Person Discourse: Three Case Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

VI The Gendered ‘I’ in the Poetry of Late Antiquity

In den Wind gesprochen – Die Ich-Reden der Ceres in Claudians De raptu Proserpinae

Medea virago in Dracontius’ Romulea

Notes on Contributors

General Index

Index locorum

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-079525-6