Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry

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Ronnie Ancona, Ellen Greene
JHU Press, 2005 M11 18 - 372 páginas

In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture.

This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female. If there is one conclusion that emerges, it is that the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not map in any single way onto the cultural and historical norms of Roman society. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices.

By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives.

 

Contenido

An Intertextual Reading
41
Gender Identity and the Elegiac Hero in Propertius 2
61
Impossible Lesbians in Ovids Metamorphoses
79
Vision and Desire in Horace Carmina 2
113
Ovids Satirical Remedies Christopher Brunelle
141
Movement Image and Gender in Ovids
159
Ovids Medicamina through the Looking Glass
177
Gendered Dynamics
206
The Lovers Gaze and Cynthias Glance Kerill ONeill
243
Hermeneutic Uncertainty and the Feminine in Ovids
271
Gender and Landscape in Propertius 4
296
Ovid and the Heroines in Exile
318
Bibliography
341
Index
363
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Ronnie Ancona is a professor of classics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Ellen Greene is the Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.

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