A companion to Roman love elegy

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A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through original essays that offer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields. Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work. Includes essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding.;PART I. The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists. 1. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon / Joseph Farrell ; 2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? / David Wray ; 3. Propertius / W.R. Johnson ; 4. Tibullus / Paul Allen Miller ; 5. Ovid / Alison R. Sharrock ; 6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 / Mathilde Skoie. PART I. The Text and Roman Erotic Elegists. 1. Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon / Joseph Farrell 2. Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? / David Wray 3. Propertius / W.R. Johnson 4. Tibullus / Paul Allen Miller 5. Ovid / Alison R. Sharrock 6. Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 / Mathilde Skoie. PART II. Historical and Material Context. 7. Elegy and the Monuments / Tara S. Welch 8. Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire / P. Lowell Bowditch 9. Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra / Eleanor Winsor Leach. PART III. Influences. 10. Callimachus and Roman Elegy / Richard Hunter 11. Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist / Roy K. Gibson. PART IV. Stylistics and Discourse. 12. Love's Tropes and Figures / Duncan F. Kennedy 13. Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract / Llewelyn Morgan 14. The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems / S.J. Heyworth 15. Translating Roman Elegy / Vincent Katz. PART V. Aspects of Production. 16. Elegy and New Comedy / Sharon L. James 17. Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings / Judith P. Hallett 18. The Domina in Roman Elegy / Alison Keith 19. "Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?" / Barbara K Gold 20. Elegy, Art and the Viewer / Hérica Valladares 21. Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy / Mary-Kay Gamel 22. Gender and Elegy / Ellen Greene. PART VI. Approaches. 23. Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy / Micaela Janan 24. Intertextuality in Roman Elegy / Donncha O'Rourke 25. Narratology in Roman Elegy / Genevieve Liveley 26. The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary / David Fredrick. PART VII. Late Antique Elegy and Reception. 27. Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post-Augustan Poetry / P.J. Davis 28. Love Elegies of Late Antiquity / James Uden 29. Renaissance Latin Elegy / Holt N. Parker 30. Modernist Reception / Dan Hooley. PART VIII. Pedagogy. 31. Teaching Roman Love Elegy / Ronnie Ancona 32. Teaching Ovid's Love Elegy / Barbara Weiden Boyd 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy Part I: / Genevieve Liveley 33. Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy Part II: / Sharon L. James.