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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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).
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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
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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.
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Investigates the Augustan context of Latin love elegy and aids students in understanding the definitive characteristics of the genre Reveals points of continuity and thematic overlap in the works of Propertius, Ovid, and Tibullus Uses a theoretical approach that builds on French feminism and psychoanalysis, especially the theories of Julia Kristeva
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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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Investigates the Augustan context of Latin love elegy and aids students in understanding the definitive characteristics of the genre Reveals points of continuity and thematic overlap in the works of Propertius, Ovid, and Tibullus Uses a theoretical approach that builds on French feminism and psychoanalysis, especially the theories of Julia Kristeva
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ISBN
9780199652396
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
502 gr
Høyde
222 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
296

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Biographical note

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.