Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy
| 1. Verfasser: |
James, Sharon L.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2003.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 350 S. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Pt. 1
- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy
- Introduction: approaching elegy
- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy
- Pt. 2
- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy
- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone
- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy
- Pt. 3
- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy
- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid
- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy.
