Ebook: A Companion to Roman Love Elegy

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole.

• Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields
• Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work
• Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work
• Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding
  

 

Content:
Chapter 1 Calling out the Greeks: Dynamics of the Elegiac Canon (pages 9–24): Joseph Farrell
Chapter 2 Catullus the Roman Love Elegist? (pages 25–38): David Wray
Chapter 3 Propertius (pages 39–52): W. R. Johnson
Chapter 4 Tibullus (pages 53–69): Paul Allen Miller
Chapter 5 Ovid (pages 70–85): Alison R. Sharrock
Chapter 6 Corpus Tibullianum, Book 3 (pages 86–100): Mathilde Skoie
Chapter 7 Elegy and the Monuments (pages 101–118): Tara S. Welch
Chapter 8 Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire (pages 119–133): P. Lowell Bowditch
Chapter 9 Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra (pages 134–151): Eleanor Winsor Leach
Chapter 10 Callimachus and Roman Elegy (pages 153–171): Richard Hunter
Chapter 11 Gallus: The First Roman Love Elegist (pages 172–186): Roy K. Gibson
Chapter 12 Love's Tropes and Figures (pages 187–203): Duncan F. Kennedy
Chapter 13 Elegiac Meter: Opposites Attract (pages 204–218): Llewelyn Morgan
Chapter 14 The Elegiac Book: Patterns and Problems (pages 219–233): S. J. Heyworth
Chapter 15 Translating Roman Elegy (pages 234–250): Vincent Katz
Chapter 16 Elegy and New Comedy (pages 251–268): Sharon L. James
Chapter 17 Authorial Identity in Latin Love Elegy: Literary Fictions and Erotic Failings (pages 269–284): Judith P. Hallett
Chapter 18 The Domina in Roman Elegy (pages 285–302): Alison Keith
Chapter 19 “Patronage and the Elegists: Social Reality or Literary Construction?” (pages 303–317): Barbara K. Gold
Chapter 20 Elegy, Art and the Viewer (pages 318–338): Herica Valladares
Chapter 21 Performing Sex, Gender and Power in Roman Elegy (pages 339–356): Mary?Kay Gamel
Chapter 22 Gender and Elegy (pages 357–371): Ellen Greene
Chapter 23 Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and Roman Love Elegy (pages 373–389): Micaela Janan
Chapter 24 Intertextuality in Roman Elegy (pages 390–409): Donncha O'Rourke
Chapter 25 Narratology in Roman Elegy (pages 410–425): Genevieve Liveley
Chapter 26 The Gaze and the Elegiac Imaginary (pages 426–439): David Fredrick
Chapter 27 Reception of Elegy in Augustan and Post?Augustan Poetry (pages 441–458): P. J. Davis
Chapter 28 Love Elegies of Late Antiquity (pages 459–475): James Uden
Chapter 29 Renaissance Latin Elegy (pages 476–490): Holt N. Parker
Chapter 30 Modernist Reception (pages 491–507): Dan Hooley
Chapter 31 Teaching Roman Love Elegy (pages 509–525): Ronnie Ancona
Chapter 32 Teaching Ovid's Love Elegy (pages 526–540): Barbara Weiden Boyd
Chapter 33 Teaching Rape in Roman Elegy, Part I (pages 541–548): Genevieve Liveley
Chapter 33a Teaching Rape in Roman Love Elegy, Part II (pages 549–557): Sharon L. James