Learned girls and male persuasion [electronic resource] : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / Sharon L. James.
Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literaturePublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xv, 350 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 871/.01093543 21
- PA6059.E6 J36 2003eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.
Pt. 1 -- Concepts, structures, and characters in Roman love elegy -- Introduction: approaching elegy -- Men, women, poetry, and money: the material bases and social backgrounds of elegy -- Pt. 2 -- The material girls and the arguments of elegy; or, The docta puella reads elegy -- Against the greedy girl; or, The docta puella does not live by elegy alone -- Characters, complaints, and the stations of the lover; or, Adventures and laments in elegy -- Pt. 3 -- Problems of gender and genre, text and audience, in Roman love elegy -- Necessary female beauty and generic male resentment: reading elegy through Ovid -- Poetry, politics, sex, status: how the docta puella serves elegy.
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