LEADER 04273nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910778097503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08780-0 010 $a9786612087806 010 $a1-4008-2593-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825936 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756346 035 $a(EBL)445512 035 $a(OCoLC)368298171 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000253194 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237573 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000253194 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10186071 035 $a(PQKB)11338368 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36280 035 $a(DE-B1597)446333 035 $a(OCoLC)979578515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825936 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284154 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208780 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445512 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756346 100 $a20030127d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSubjecting verses$b[electronic resource] $eLatin erotic elegy and the emergence of the real /$fPaul Allen Miller 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09674-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-301) and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One. Toward a New History of Genre: Elegy and the Real -- $tChapter Two. The Catullan Sublime, Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real -- $tChapter Three. Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys -- $tChapter Four. "He Do the Police in Different Voices": the Tibullan Dream Tex -- $tChapter Five. Why Propertius Is a Woman -- $tChapter Six. Deconstructing The Vir: Law and the Other in the Amores -- $tChapter Seven. Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text -- $tChapter Eight. Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex Locorum -- $tGeneral Index 330 $aThe elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses presents the first comprehensive history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Paul Allen Miller harmoniously weds close readings of the poetry with insights from theoreticians as diverse as Jameson, Foucault, Lacan, and Zizek. In welcome contrast to previous, thematic studies of elegy--efforts that have become bogged down in determining whether particular themes and poets were pro- or anti-Augustan--Miller offers a new, "symptomatic" history. He asks two obvious but rarely posed questions: what historical conditions were necessary to produce elegy, and what provoked its decline? Ultimately, he argues that elegiac poetry arose from a fundamental split in the nature of subjectivity that occurred in the late first century--a split symptomatic of the historical changes taking place at the time. Subjecting Verses is a major interpretive feat whose influence will reach across classics and literary studies. Linking the rise of elegy with changes in how Romans imagined themselves within a rapidly changing society, it offers a new model of literary theory that neither reduces the poems to a reflection of their context nor examines them in a vacuum. 606 $aElegiac poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism 606 $aErotic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aElegiac poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aErotic poetry, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a871/.01093538 700 $aMiller$b Paul Allen$f1959-$01146107 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778097503321 996 $aSubjecting verses$93854196 997 $aUNINA