Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy
ISBN: 9780199652396 | 0199652392
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/5/2013
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Gardner looks at the gendered language of time applied to men and women in Latin love elegy. Focusing on the poetry of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, she uses Kristeva's theory of 'women's time' to explain the cyclicality, repetition, and eternity attributed to the elegiac beloved, often identified as a courtesan-puella (girl).
Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegyexamines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan P... MORE
Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegyexamines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan P... MORE
Preface
1. Introduction
Part One: Arrested Development
2. Coming-of-Age in Augustan Rome
3. Taming the Velox Puella
4. Two Senes: Delia and Messalla
5. Ovid: Elegy at the Crossroads
Part Two: Unveiling Aurora: From Puella Relicta to Puella Anus
6. The Waiting Game
7. Nature, Culture and the Puella Anus
8. Departure Strategies: The Elegist in Men's Time
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Hunter H. Gardner is currently an Assistant Professor of Classics and affiliate of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her other publications include articles on Catullus, Ovid's Remedia Amoris, and the Greek comic poet Menander.
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