Powerplay in Tibullus
Reading Elegies Book One
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- Author: Parshia Lee-Stecum, University of Melbourne
- Date Published: October 1998
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521630832
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This study, first published in 1998, explores the subtle, many-faceted interplay of power in Tibullus' first book of elegies. A series of power relationships are created by the text (lover and beloved, poet and patron) and the processes through which power of various sorts can be exercised are brought to the foreground. Such power-play within the text of Tibullus I has ramifications well beyond the erotic sphere. Gender categories, rural life, religion, militia, patronage are among the areas subsumed within and determined by the operation of power dynamics in this consistently underrated Augustan text. As secure meaning becomes elusive, the reader is also drawn into this nexus of power-play. Taking a linear reading of Book One as its basis, this study uncovers the shifting, unstable ground of Tibullan elegy. The result is a picture of the poet and text of Book I far removed from the bland, safe and urbane 'Tibullus' of previous criticism.
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- Date Published: October 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521630832
- length: 342 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 146 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.515kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Poem one
2. Poem two
3. Poem three
4. Poem four
5. Poem five
6. Poem six
7. Poem seven
8. Poem eight
9. Poem nine
10. Poem ten
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indexes.
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