A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole.Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fieldsContains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their workIncludes 33 essayson the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their workRecent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegyfrom scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding INDICE: List of Figures viiiReference Works: Abbreviations xNotes on Contributors xiPreface xviIntroduction 1Barbara K. GoldPART I The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists 91. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon 11Joseph Farrell2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? 25David Wray3. Propertius 39W. R. Johnson4. Tibullus 53Paul Allen Miller5. Ovid 70Alison R. Sharrock6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 86Mathilde SkoiePART II Historical and Material Context 1017. Elegy and the Monuments 103Tara S. Welch8. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire 119P. Lowell Bowditch9. Rome’s Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra 134Eleanor Winsor LeachPART III Influences 15310. Callimachus andRoman Elegy 155Richard Hunter11. Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist 172Roy K. GibsonPART IV Stylistics and Discourse 18712. Love’s Tropes and Figures 189Duncan F. Kennedy13. Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract 204Llewelyn Morgan14. The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems 219S. J. Heyworth15. Translating RomanElegy 234Vincent KatzPART V Aspects of Production 25116. Elegy and New Comedy253Sharon L. James17. Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings 269Judith P. Hallett18. The Domina in Roman Elegy 285Alison Keith19. “Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?†303Barbara K. Gold20. Elegy, Art and the Viewer 318Hérica Valladares21. Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy 339Mary-Kay Gamel22. Gender and Elegy 357Ellen GreenePART VI Approaches 37323. Lacanian PsychoanalyticTheory and Roman Love Elegy 375Micaela Janan24. Intertextuality in Roman Elegy 390Donncha O’Rourke25. Narratology in Roman Elegy 410Genevieve Liveley26. The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary 426David FredrickPART VII Late Antique Elegy and Reception 44127. Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry443P. J. Davis28. Love Elegies of Late Antiquity 459James Uden29. RenaissanceLatin Elegy 476Holt N. Parker30. Modernist Reception 491Dan HooleyPART VIII Pedagogy 50931. Teaching Roman Love Elegy 511Ronnie Ancona32. Teaching Ovid’sLove Elegy 526Barbara Weiden Boyd33. Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy 541Part I: Genevieve Liveley33. Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy 549Part II: Sharon L. JamesGeneral Index 558Index Locorum 574
- ISBN: 978-1-118-24116-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 608
- Fecha Publicación: 19/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés