Gendered dynamics in Latin love poetry
By: edited by Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene.
Contributors: Ancona, Ronnie, 1951-; Greene, Ellen, 1950-
Series: Arethusa books
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.; Man-woman relationships in literature.; Feminism and literature -- Rome.; Women and literature -- Rome.; Sex role in literature.
Description: "This volume - focusing specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry - moves beyond the polarized critical positions that such poetry simply either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. From an exploration of the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting power back and forth between male and female, one conclusion becomes clear: the dynamics of gender in Latin amatory poetry do not translate the cultural and historical norms of Roman society in any single or simple way. In fact, as several essays show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and Roman cultural practices."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Propertian closure : the elegiac inscription of the liminal male and ideological contestation in Augustan Rome / Trevor Fear; title: (Un)constrained male desire : an intertextual reading of Horace Odes 2.8 and Catullus Poem 61 / Ronnie Ancona; title: Gender identity and the elegiac hero in Propertius 2.1 / Ellen Greene; title: Impossible lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Kirk Ormand; title: Vision and desire in Horace Carmina 2.5 / Elizabeth Sutherland; title: Ovid's satirical remedies / Christopher Brunelle; title: The fixing gaze : movement, image, and gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Patricia Salzman-Mitchell; title: Facing facts : Ovid's Medicamina through the looking glass / Victoria Rimell; title: The lover as a model viewer : gendered dynamics in Propertius 1.3 / Hérica Valladares; title: The lover's gaze and Cynthia's glance / Kerill O'Neill; title: Hermeneutic uncertainty and the feminine in Ovid's Ars amatoria : the Procris and Cephalus digression / Phebe Lowell Bowditch; title: Amor versus Roma : gender and landscape in Propertius 4.4 / Tara S. Welch; title: Silenced subjects : Ovid and the heroines in exile / Efrossini Spentzou.