The Arts of Love
Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy
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Part of Roman Literature and its Contexts
- Author: Duncan F. Kennedy
- Date Published: December 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521407670
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This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Each study is centred around a reading of a poem or poems together with a discussion of a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches. All Latin texts and terms are translated or closely paraphrased. Although the book concentrates on the work of the Roman elegists, the challenging insights it offers into the processes involved in the reading and appropriation of the texts of the past are relevant to scholars and students of classical literature in general, and its discussion of such key issues as history, textuality, representation, discourse, gender, ideology and metaphor will be of concern to those interested in literary theory and cultural studies.
Read more- One of first batch of titles of new series designed to shake up Latin studies and stimulate debate
- Lucid explanation of approaches to criticism taken by Paul Veyne, Barthes, Foucault
- All students of Latin must study the elegists at some stage
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- Date Published: December 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521407670
- length: 120 pages
- dimensions: 205 x 129 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.255kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Representation and the rhetoric of reality
2. Getting down to essentials
3. Love's figures and tropes
4. A lover's discourse
5. An irregular in love's army: the problems of identification
Footnotes
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