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The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Premises and Expectations of the Elegiac Grotesque -- Premises -- Classical Framework -- Modern Framework -- Genre and Textual Coordinates of the...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6360430 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Premises and Expectations of the Elegiac Grotesque -- Premises -- Classical Framework -- Modern Framework -- Genre and Textual Coordinates of the Elegiac Grotesque -- The Non-Elegiac Grotesque -- Chapter 2 Context and Prehistory of the Elegiac Grotesque -- The Lucretian Corporification of Love -- Lucretius on the Physiology of the Beloved -- Catullus on the Sordid Side of Love Affairs -- Catullus' Punitive Grotesque -- Chapter 3 Cynthia and the Grotesque Ethos -- Cynthia's Uncanny Apparition -- The Ethos of Ambivalence -- Elegiac Cacophony -- Chapter 4 The Ovidian Unmasking of the Elegiac Grotesque -- The Vitium of Love -- The Bald Puella: Amores 1.14 -- The Puella between Beauty and the Grotesque -- Chapter 5 Revolting and Refined: The Aesthetic Function of Acanthis -- The Lena -- The Lena's Song -- Chapter 6 Grotesque Hermeneutics of the Lena in Tibullus and Ovid -- Tibullus' Lena and the Hermeneutical Grotesque -- The Grotesque Ethos of the Tibullan Lena -- Dipsas and the Manifestations of the Grotesque -- Chapter 7 The Rival: A Vir Foedus -- The Propertian Rival -- The Tibullan Rival -- The Ovidian Rival -- Chapter 8 Pasiphae and the Allurement of the Grotesque -- Negative Eroticism -- The Literal and the Metaphorical Grotesque -- A Lover's Discourse on Bovine Love -- Bovine Allurement and Mock Sympathy -- Signatus Tenui Nigro: The Bull's Black Spot -- Chapter 9 Ovid's Remedia and the Waning of the Elegiac Grotesque -- References -- Index. A pioneering study of the aesthetic function of grotesque imagery in Roman love elegy |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108807999 |
