Latin Love Elegy

Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107511743

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy by Thea S. Thorsen Pdf

Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

Author : Archibald A. Day
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3487402580

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The Origin of Latin Love-Elegy by Archibald A. Day Pdf

Author : Robert Maltby
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0865160619

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Latin Love Elegy by Robert Maltby Pdf

This book offers a representative selection of the three main exponents of Latin love elegy: Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. A few elegiac poems by Catullus are included for purposes of comparison. The book includes a general introduction to the elegy, select bibliography, Latin text of twenty poems, and commentary to introduce each poem, notes, both grammatical and to aid literary analysis.

Author : Marek Tue Kretschmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Classical poetry
ISBN : 2503587038

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Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age by Marek Tue Kretschmer Pdf

The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry.

Author : Paul Allen Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400825936

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Subjecting Verses by Paul Allen Miller Pdf

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault, Lacan, and Zizek. In welcome contrast to previous, thematic studies of elegy--efforts that have become bogged down in determining whether particular themes and poets were pro- or anti-Augustan--Miller offers a new, "symptomatic" history. He asks two obvious but rarely posed questions: what historical conditions were necessary to produce elegy, and what provoked its decline? Ultimately, he argues that elegiac poetry arose from a fundamental split in the nature of subjectivity that occurred in the late first century--a split symptomatic of the historical changes taking place at the time. Subjecting Verses is a major interpretive feat whose influence will reach across classics and literary studies. Linking the rise of elegy with changes in how Romans imagined themselves within a rapidly changing society, it offers a new model of literary theory that neither reduces the poems to a reflection of their context nor examines them in a vacuum.

Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108493864

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Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry by Linda Grant Pdf

Interdisciplinary in approach and methodologically sophisticated, this book explores the dynamic reception of Latin erotic elegy in Renaissance love poetry.

Author : José Manuel Blanco Mayor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110490282

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Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses by José Manuel Blanco Mayor Pdf

Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.

Author : Paul White
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004548077

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Early Modern Latin Love Poetry by Paul White Pdf

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.

Author : Duncan F. Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521407672

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The Arts of Love by Duncan F. Kennedy Pdf

The five chapters that make up this short book examine the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Each study is centred around a reading of a poem or poems together with a discussion of a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches drawn from modern scholars and theorists such as Paul Veyne, Roland Barthes an Michel Foucault. In each case, the modes of analysis involved are pressed hard to see where they may lead, and, equally, where they may show signs of strain. All Latin texts and terms are translated or closely paraphrased.

Author : R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046447705

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The Latin Love Poets by R. O. A. M. Lyne Pdf

Illustrated with copious quotations (all translated) this book offers a full account of the great Latin love poets: Catallus, Propertius, Tibullus, Horace, and Ovid. Set in social and historical context, it combines literary history with literary criticism to reveal something of the personality of the poets themselves.

Author : Walter Ralph Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Elegiac poetry, Latin
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132249868

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A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome by Walter Ralph Johnson Pdf

Over the centuries, Latin love elegy has inspired love poetry in the West from Petrarch to Pound. A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome: Readings in Propertius and His Genre offers a critical reevaluation of the Latin elegiac poet Propertius, situating him within the social and political milieu of first-century BCE Rome. W. R. Johnson's study is centered on close readings of the poems in Propertius' four books that emphasize both his celebration of erotic freedom as a manifestation of the sovereignty of the individual and his insistence on the value of this freedom, especially when it is threatened by autocratic ideology. Many recent titles on Propertius have tended to minimize or ignore this aspect of the poet's work, concentrating instead on neo-formalism or Lacanian psychology. Johnson restores Propertius' erotic creed and his politics to the core of his poetics and his career. He offers a vivid picture of the sociopolitical and erotic world of the late Roman Republic and the early years of the Empire which hatched Latin love elegy and allowed it to flourish. This study aims to redirect attention to the pleasures and energies Propertius provides that later generations of poets and readers discovered in and through him.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247264831

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The origins of Latin love-elegy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Allen Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135641887

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Latin Erotic Elegy by Paul Allen Miller Pdf

This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire. The book begins with a detailed and wide-ranging introduction, looking at major figures, the evolution of the form, and the Roman context, with particular focus on the changing relations between the sexes. The texts that follow range from the earliest manifestations of erotic elegy, in Catullus, through Tibullus, Sulpicia (Rome's only female elegist), Propertius and Ovid. An accessible commentary explores the historical background, issues of language and style, and the relation of each piece to its author's larger body of work. The volume closes with an anthology of critical essays representative of the main trends in scholarship; these both illuminate the genre's most salient features and help the student understand its modern reception.

Author : José Manuel Blanco Mayor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110488654

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Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses by José Manuel Blanco Mayor Pdf

Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110596182

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Life, Love and Death in Latin Poetry by Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Inspired by Theodore Papanghelis’ Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (1987), this collective volume brings together seventeen contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the different ways in which Latin authors and some of their modern readers created narratives of life, love and death. Taken together the papers offer stimulating readings of Latin texts over many centuries, examined in a variety of genres and from various perspectives: poetics and authorial self-fashioning; intertextuality; fiction and ‘reality’; gender and queer studies; narratological readings; temporality and aesthetics; genre and meta-genre; structures of the narrative and transgression of boundaries on the ideological and the formalistic level; reception; meta-dramatic and feminist accounts-the female voice. Overall, the articles offer rich insights into the handling and development of these narratives from Classical Greece through Rome up to modern English poetry.