05141nam 2201321 a 450 991078024710332120230617011830.01-282-35682-897866123568270-520-92866-01-59734-707-810.1525/9780520928664(CKB)111087027179668(EBL)223167(OCoLC)475927170(SSID)ssj0000190409(PQKBManifestationID)11156701(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000190409(PQKBWorkID)10180053(PQKB)11478119(MiAaPQ)EBC223167(OCoLC)52843492(MdBmJHUP)muse30578(DE-B1597)521014(DE-B1597)9780520928664(Au-PeEL)EBL223167(CaPaEBR)ebr10048953(CaONFJC)MIL235682(EXLCZ)9911108702717966820020701d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLearned girls and male persuasion[electronic resource] gender and reading in Roman love elegy /Sharon L. JamesBerkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (367 p.)Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-23381-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and indexes.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.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.Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.Elegiac poetry, LatinHistory and criticismLove poetry, LatinHistory and criticismMan-woman relationships in literatureWomenBooks and readingRomeWomen and literatureRomeBooks and readingRomeSex role in literaturePersuasion (Rhetoric)Women in literatureacanthis.amator.amatoria.amores.ancient rome.augustus.beloved.catullus.classics.corinna.courtesan.cynthia.dipsas.docta puella.dominae.elegiac love.feminism.feminist theory.gender studies.gender theory.gender.literary criticism.literary theory.love elegy.love poetry.love.male authors.nonfiction.ovid.poetics.poetry.propertius.roman elegy.roman empire.roman literature.romance.seduction.sexual morality.sexuality.tibullus.woman as subject.Elegiac poetry, LatinHistory and criticism.Love poetry, LatinHistory and criticism.Man-woman relationships in literature.WomenBooks and readingWomen and literatureBooks and readingSex role in literature.Persuasion (Rhetoric)Women in literature.871/.01093543James Sharon L621809MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780247103321Learned girls and male persuasion1107894UNINA