Learned girls and male persuasion
gender and reading in Roman love elegy
by Sharon L. James
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"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. Her innovative study yields important new insights into both the literary and sociopolitical contexts of Roman love elegy."--BOOK JACKET.
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Books and reading, History, History and criticism, Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Love poetry, Man-woman relationships in literature, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Sex role in literature, Women, Women and literature, Women in literature, Elegiac poetry, history and criticism, Love poetry, history and criticism, Persuasion (rhetoric), Poésie élégiaque latine, Histoire et critique, Poésie d'amour latine, Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature, Femmes et littérature, Livres et lecture, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Femmes dans la littérature, POETRY, Ancient, Classical & Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM, Ancient & Classical, Liefdesgedichten, Elegieën, Latijn, Vrouwen, Intellectuelen, Femmes, Persuasion (Rhétorique) dans la littératurePlaces
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Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy
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Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy
2002, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.
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