Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real 9781400825936, 1400825938

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts

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Subjecting Verses: Latin Love Elegy and the Emergence of the Real
9781400825936, 1400825938

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts

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Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman l

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This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses

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The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly

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"The Roman Poetry of Love" explores the formation of a key literary genre in a troubled historical and politic

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This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses

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Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine elegiac question in Ovid's Metamorphoses, this book intend

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Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin lov

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Between 1978 and 2006, most Latin American countries joined the "third wave of democracy". However, as elected

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