Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy

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Learned girls and male persuasion : gender and reading in Roman love elegy

Title remainder

gender and reading in Roman love elegy

Statement of responsibility

Sharon L. James

Creator

• James, Sharon L

Subject

• Books and reading -- Rome
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books
• Elegiac poetry, Latin
• Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
• Elegieën
• Intellectuelen
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical
• Latijn
• Liefdesgedichten
• Love poetry, Latin
• Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
• Man-woman relationships in literature
• Man-woman relationships in literature
• POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
• Persuasion (Rhetoric)
• Persuasion (Rhetoric)
• Rome (Empire)
• Sex role in literature
• Sex role in literature
• Vrouwen
• Women -- Books and reading
• Women -- Books and reading -- Rome
• Women and literature
• Women and literature -- Rome
• Women in literature
• Women in literature
• Books and reading

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed--the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers--as plaint and confession--but rather from the viewpoint of the women--thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation--James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before

Member of

• Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Cataloging source

N$T

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature