Author: William John HemsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elegiac poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Latin Elegiac Verse-writing Modelled Upon Ovid
Author: William John HemsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elegiac poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses
Author: José Manuel Blanco MayorPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110490285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.
The Letters of A. E. Housman
Author: Alfred Edward HousmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198184964
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The Letters of A. E. Housman is a scholarly edition of over 2200 letters. (The previous edition, edited by Henry Maas, contained just over 880.) The letters cover the whole range of Housman's daily activities, whether he writes as poet, Professor of Latin, son, brother, uncle, friend, or citizen. Thus they allow the fullest possible revelation of a man whose reserve was legendary. He emerges as a more amiable, more sociable, more generous, more painstaking, and more complexperson than has previously been realized. In most cases the source of the text is a manuscript, and this has resulted in a text that is more accurate and more complete than any previously available. Accompanying the text are notes covering persons and places, poetry, classical scholarship, publishinghistory, and literary allusion and echo.
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy
Author: Thea S. ThorsenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107511747
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and Roman backdrop for Latin love elegy, the individual Latin love elegists (both the canonical and the non-canonical), their poems and influence on writers in later times. The book is designed as an accessible introduction for the general reader interested in Latin love elegy and the history of love and lament in Western literature, as well as a collection of critically stimulating essays for students and scholars of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.
The Heroic Couplet in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Author: George Pope ShannonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
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