| Description |
xv, 350 p. |
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
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Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Women -- Books and reading -- Rome.
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Women and literature -- Rome.
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Books and reading -- Rome.
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Sex role in literature.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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Women in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0520233816 (alk. paper) |
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