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Learned Girls and Male Persuasion
Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy
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English
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2003
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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.
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James Sharon Lynn :
Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Part I. Concepts, Structures, and Characters in Roman Love Elegy
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Part II. The Material Girls and the Arguments of Elegy; or, The Docta Puella Reads Elegy
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Part III. Problems of Gender and Genre, Text and Audience, in Roman Love Elegy
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Appendix
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Notes
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Works Cited
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General Index
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Index Locorum
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February 20, 2003
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9780520928664
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Keywords for this book
roman elegy; love elegy; propertius; tibullus; ovid; male authors; seduction; love poetry; feminism; roman literature; poetics; sexuality; sexual morality; ancient rome; roman empire; gender studies; gender theory; feminist theory; literary theory; nonfiction; woman as subject; poetry; love; romance; dipsas; acanthis; literary criticism; amatoria; augustus; cynthia; elegiac love; corinna; amator; catullus; docta puella; courtesan; classics; gender; amores; dominae; beloved
