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Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy

Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy

James, Sharon Lynn

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520233816
ISBN13: 9780520233812
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 20 2003
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed--the docta puella, or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers--as plaint and confession--but rather from the viewpoint of the women--thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation--James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.

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