Life Love And Death In Latin Poetry

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Stavros Frangoulidis,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110593631

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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.

Author : Jasper Griffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : 1472539877

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Latin Poets and Roman Life by Jasper Griffin Pdf

"This book studies the interrelation of literature and life in the Augustan poets. The works of Virgil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid are characterised by a brilliant polish and a dazzling repertoire of devices for stylising events and emotions; yet they remain convincing as a direct response to experience and theories which deny that directness are criticised in this book as mistaken. The life of pleasure, in its kaleidoscopic variety "eating, drinking, bathing, love" is a central subject but so is death. The book also discusses the uses of mythology, the influence of poetry on experience, and the interpretation of passages in the poems of Virgil. All Latin quoted is translated into English."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Brenda Hillman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819572035

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Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman Pdf

From the depths of sorrow following the sudden death of her closest female mentor, Brenda Hillman asks anguished questions in this book of poems about separation, spiritual transcendence, and the difference between life and death. Both personal and philosophical, her work can be read as a spirit-guide for those mourning the loss of a loved one and as a series of fundamental ponderings on the inevitability of death and separation. At first refusing to let go, desperate to feel the presence of her friend, the poet seeks solace in a belief in the spirit world. But life, not death, becomes the issue when she begins to see physical existence as "an interruption" that preoccupies us with shapes and borders. "Shape makes life too small," she realizes. Comfort at last comes in the idea of "reverse seeing": that even if she cannot see forward into the spirit world, her friend can see "backward into this world" and be with her. Death Tractates is the companion volume to a philosophical poetic work entitles Bright Existence, which Hillman was in the midst of writing when her friend died. Published by Wesleyan University Press in 1993, it shares many of the same Gnostic themes and sources.

Author : Ramie Targoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226110462

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Posthumous Love by Ramie Targoff Pdf

For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven—Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch with Laura. But as Ramie Targoff reveals in this elegant study, English love poetry of the Renaissance brought a startling reversal of this tradition: human love became definitively mortal. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, Targoff seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. Targoff shows that medieval notions of the somewhat flexible boundaries between love in this world and in the next were hardened by Protestant reformers, who envisioned a total break between the two. Tracing the narrative of this rupture, she focuses on central episodes in poetic history in which poets developed rich and compelling compensations for the lack of posthumous love—from Thomas Wyatt’s translations of Petrarch’s love sonnets and the Elizabethan sonnet series of Shakespeare and Spencer to the carpe diem poems of the seventeenth century. Targoff’s centerpiece is Romeo and Juliet, where she considers how Shakespeare’s reworking of the Italian story stripped away any expectation that the doomed teenagers would reunite in heaven. Casting new light on these familiar works of poetry and drama, this book ultimately demonstrates that the negation of posthumous love brought forth a new mode of poetics that derived its emotional and aesthetic power from its insistence upon love’s mortal limits.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Arts
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018615633

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Latin American Literature & Arts Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521106532

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Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death by Theodore D. Papanghelis Pdf

The bond between love and death has long been recognised as a defining characteristic of the elegies of Propertius, but scholars have rarely clarified how or to what degree Propertius differed from other love poets in associating these themes. In this book, Dr Papanghelis traces the radical way in which Propertius dealt with amorous and morbid fantasies in his poems. He argues that the modes of erotic expression used in the elegies are fundamentally unconventional, to the point that the definitions of love and death are interdependent. This book offers a detailed reading of some of the most stimulating and problematic of Propertius' elegies, offering fresh insight on the question of the poet's sensuous temperament and the significance of the love-death relationship in his works.

Author : Thomas Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z256531308

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Poems, Viz.: The Hekatompathia Or Passionate Centurie of Love. Meliboeus, Sive Ecloga Inobitum. An Eglogue Upon the Death of ... Sir Francis Walsingham. Carefully Ed. by Edward Arber by Thomas Watson Pdf

Author : Thomas Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017077634

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Poems. Viz.:-The Ἐκατομπαθια or Passionate Centurie of Love. 1582. Melibœus, sive Ecloga Inobitum, &c. 1590. An Eglogue upon the death of Right Honourable Sir Francis Walsingham. 1590. The Teares of Fancy or Love disdained. Posthumously published in 1593 ... Edited by Edward Arber by Thomas Watson Pdf

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781513285276

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The Remedy of Love by Ovid Pdf

“The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age.” –Michel de Montaigne Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. A sequel to his three book poem Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD), Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love was immensely popular—if a little controversial—in its time, and has survived numerous charges of indecency over the centuries. For the modern reader, it should prove a surprisingly relatable work on intimacy and relationships from an author of the ancient world. While Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love offers salient advice on such topics as etiquette, remembering birthdays, avoiding unhealthy jealousy, being open to older and younger lovers, and nurturing honesty, Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love takes as its subject the unfortunate—yet common—experience of love gone bad. Perhaps concerned for eager readers of his first work on romance, Ovid provides suggestions to novice lovers on how to escape a bad relationship and on what to do in the event of incurable unhappiness. In order to avoid the tragic fates of Dido or Medea, both of whom were led to early graves by unfaithful lovers, Ovid suggests such healthy behaviors as staying busy, seeing the world, abstaining from alcohol, and trying not to ruminate on the love one has left behind. Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love, although frequently tongue-in-cheek, is an earnest and effective attempt to caution the overeager romantic and console those unlucky in love. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Ovid’s Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love is a classic work of Roman literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Thomas Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591034254

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Poems. Viz.:-The Ekatompathia, Melibœus, An eglogue upon the death of sir Francis Walsingham, The teares of fancy. Ed. by E. Arber by Thomas Watson Pdf

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005689604

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Medieval Latin and the Rise of European Love-lyric by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : John William Basore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4462952

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A Book of Latin Poetry by John William Basore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : J & L Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0989531104

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Elisabeth Tonnard by Anonim Pdf

Elisabeth Tonnard's In This Dark Wood is a study of urban alienation in America. In a haunting, modern-gothic style, it pairs images of people walking alone in nighttime city streets with 90 different English translations, collected by Tonnard, of the famous first lines of Dante's Inferno: "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita." ("In the middle of the journey of our life / I found myself in a dark wood / for the straight way was lost"). The images were selected from the Joseph Selle collection at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, which contains over a million negatives from a company of street photographers who worked in San Francisco from the 1940s to the 70s. This edition is a reprint of a work originally self-published in 2008.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141907345

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Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Pdf

A unique treatise by a poet, written for poets, on the art of poetry, LA VITA NUOVA is elaborately and symbolically patterned, consisting of a selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary. The poems themselves tell the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through Dante's sufferings and his attempts to conceal the true object of his devotion by the use of 'screen-loves', to his overwhelming grief ather death, ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven. These are some of the richest love poems in literature and the movement from self-pitying lament to praise for the beloved's beauty and virtue, illustrate the elevating power of love.