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Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

Autor Hunter H. Gardner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 ian 2013
Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan Principate, it aims to situate the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid in their social and political milieu. The volume argues that the imperatives of the new regime, which encouraged a younger generation of loyalists to participate in the machinery of government, placed temporal pressures on the elite male that shaped the amator's (poet-lover's) resistance to enter a course of civil service and prompted his withdrawal into the arms of a courtesan, and therefore unmarriageable, beloved.In the second part of the volume Gardner focuses on the divergent temporal experiences of the amator and his beloved courtesan-puella (girl) through the lens of 'women's time' (le temps des femmes) and the chora, as theorized by psycholinguist Julia Kristeva. Kristeva's model of feminine subjectivity, defined by repetition, cyclicality, and eternity, allows us to understand how the beloved's marginalization from the realm of historical time proves advantageous to her amator, wishing to defer his entrance into civic life. The antithesis between the properties of 'women's time' and the linear momentum that defines masculine subjectivity, moreover, demonstrates how 'women's time' ultimately thwarts the amator's often promised generic evolution.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199652396
ISBN-10: 0199652392
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Gardner's reading of elegy is intelligent and persuasive. Rather than obfuscating or explaining away contradictions that emerge so clearly from the genre of erotic elegy, she invites us to focus our interpretive attention squarely on the inconsistencies.

Notă biografică

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.