The Latin Love Elegists

Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3487402580

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

Author : Paul Allen Miller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : José Manuel Blanco Mayor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Georg Luck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Elegiac poetry, Latin
ISBN : 0416725503

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The Latin Love Elegy by Georg Luck Pdf

Author : Linda Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Marek Tue Kretschmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Thea Selliaas Thorsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107501652

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The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy by Thea Selliaas 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 : Walter Ralph Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Hunter H. Gardner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004688155

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The Latin Love Elegists by Hunter H. Gardner Pdf

Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue central to scholarship on the genre since the turn of the last millennium. This book addresses the Greco-Roman literary inheritance and Augustan socio-political context that paved the way for that flourishing, while examining the genre’s key elements and characters as illustrated in the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sulpicia. Special attention is paid to the gendered dynamics that govern the relationship between “poet-lover” (amator) and beloved and to the role of the poet as artist and creator of a “written girl” (scripta puella).

Author : Paul White
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Paul Allen Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135641955

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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 : R. O. A. M. Lyne
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Robert Maltby
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Barbara K. Gold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118241431

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A Companion to Roman Love Elegy by Barbara K. Gold Pdf

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding