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1 online resource (xiv, 435 pages) |
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Cambridge companions to topics |
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Cambridge companions to topics
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| Contents |
Part I. History and Context: 1. Greek elegy / Richard Hunter; 2. Latin precursors / Federica Bessone; Part II. The Latin Love Elegists: 3. Caius Cornelius Gallus: 'the inventor of Latin love elegy' / Emmanuelle Raymond; 4. Tibullus in first place (with Lygdamus) Parshia Lee-Stecum; 5. 'The woman' Mathilde Skoie; 6. Propertius Alison Keith; 7. Ovid the love elegist / Thea S. Thorsen; Part III. The Elegiac World: 8. Time, place and political background / Stephen J. Harrison; 9. The poeta-amator, nequitia and recusatio Alison Sharrock; 10. The puella: accept no substitutions! Paul Allen Miller; 11. Seruitium amoris: the interplay of dominance, gender and poetry / Laurel Fulkerson; 12. Militia amoris: fighting in love's army / Megan O. Drinkwater; Part IV. The Ends of Latin Love Elegy: 13. Loves and elegy / Roy Gibson; 14. Latin love elegy and other genres / Lisa Piazzi; 15. Breaking the rules: elegy, matrons and mime / John F. Miller; Part V. Receptions: 16. Latin love elegy in late antiquity: Maximian / Roger P.H. Green; 17. The love elegy in medieval Latin literature (pseudo-Ovidiana and Ovidian imitations) Marek Thue Kretschmer; 18. Renaissance Latin love elegy / Luke B.T. Houghton; 19. English elegies of the sixteenth and seventeenth century / Victoria Moul; 20. Translation and imitation of classical elegy in the French eighteenth century / Stephanie Loubère; 21. Russian elegists and Latin lovers in the long eighteenth century / Andrew Kahn; 22. German elegies: from Baroque beginnings and classical culminations to twentieth-century Hollywood / Theodore Ziolkowski; Part VI. Metre: 23. The Latin elegiac couplet / Thea S. Thorsen |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Thorsen, Thea Selliaas, editor
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| ISBN |
1139028286 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139028288 (electronic bk.) |
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