Satiric advice on women and marriage : from Plautus to Chaucer / / Warren S. Smith, editor

• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 877.009/3543
• Soggetto topico: Satire, Latin - History and criticism; Satire, Greek - History and criticism; Women and literature - History - To 1500; Satire, Medieval - History and criticism; Marriage in literature; Women in literature
• Altri autori: SmithWarren S. <1941->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Satiric advice : serious or not? / Warren S. Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. Smith -- Marriage and gender in Ovid's erotodidactic poetry / Karla Pollmann -- Advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists : Horace Sermones 1.2, Juvenal Satire 6, and Roman satiric writing / Warren S. Smith -- Chaste Artemis and lusty Aphrodite : the portrait of women and marriage in the Greek and Latin novels / Regine May -- Dissuading from marriage : Jerome and the asceticization of satire / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on women and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages / Barbara Feichtinger -- Walter as Valerius : classical and Christian in the Dissuasio / Ralph Hanna III and Warren S. Smith -- Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages / P.G. Walsh -- The Wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome / Warren S. Smith.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholars of classics and religion, mostly British or American, sample satiric attitudes about women and marriage written in Latin from about 200 BC through Walter Map in the 12th century, with two closing chapters on Chaucer writing in Middle English during the 14th. Among their topics are Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage, a
• Titolo autorizzato: Satiric advice on women and marriage
• ISBN: 9786612594014; 9781282594012; 128259401X; 9780472026296; 0472026291
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964132703321
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