Subjecting verses : Latin erotic elegy and the emergence of the real

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Subjecting verses : Latin erotic elegy and the emergence of the real

Title remainder

Latin erotic elegy and the emergence of the real

Statement of responsibility

Paul Allen Miller

Creator

• Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-

Subject

• Electronic books
• Elegiac poetry, Latin
• Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
• Elegieën
• Erotic poetry, Latin
• Erotic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
• Latijn
• Liefdesgedichten
• POETRY -- Ancient & Classical
• POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Poésie érotique latine -- Histoire et critique
• Realism in literature
• Realism in literature
• Réalisme dans la littérature
• Sex in literature
• Sex in literature
• Sexualité dans la littérature
• Poésie élégiaque latine -- Histoire et critique

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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 weds close readings of the poetry with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault, Lacan, and Zizek. He asks two 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. --From publisher's description

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N$T

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography