1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455625503321

Autore

James Sharon L

Titolo

Learned girls and male persuasion [[electronic resource] ] : gender and reading in Roman love elegy / / Sharon L. James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-35682-8

9786612356827

0-520-92866-0

1-59734-707-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Collana

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Disciplina

871/.01093543

Soggetti

Elegiac poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Love poetry, Latin - History and criticism

Man-woman relationships in literature

Women - Books and reading - Rome

Women and literature - Rome

Books and reading - Rome

Sex role in literature

Persuasion (Rhetoric)

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464152903321

Autore

Pemberton Stephen Gregory

Titolo

The bleeding disease : hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress / / Stephen Pemberton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0442-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Disciplina

616.1/572

Soggetti

Hemophilia - Complications

Hemophilia - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : hemophilia as pathology of progress -- The emergence of the hemophilia concept -- The scientist, the bleeder, and the laboratory -- Vital factors in the making of a masculine world -- Normality within limits -- The hemophiliac's passport to freedom -- Autonomy and other imperatives of the health consumer -- The mismanagement of hemophilia and AIDS -- Conclusion : the governance of clinical progress in a global age.