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James, Sharon L.

Learned girls and male persuasion gender and reading in Roman love elegy / [electronic resource] : Sharon L. James. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xv, 350 p. ; 24 cm. - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature . - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. .

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Women--Books and reading--Rome.
Women and literature--Rome.
Books and reading--Rome.
Sex role in literature.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Women in literature.


Electronic books.

PA6059.E6 / J36 2003eb

871/.01093543
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