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The Arts of Love

The Arts of Love

The Arts of Love

Five Studies in the Discourse of Roman Love Elegy
Duncan F. Kennedy
January 1993
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    This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. It combines detailed discussions of individual poems with discussion and criticism of a variety of sophisticated modern theoretical approaches. It thus aims to advance the argument not only in the field of elegy, but also in issues such as gender, ideology and the theory of reading.

    • One of first batch of titles of new series designed to shake up Latin studies and stimulate debate
    • Lucid explanation of approaches to criticism taken by Paul Veyne, Barthes, Foucault
    • All students of Latin must study the elegists at some stage

    Reviews & endorsements

    "What is most impressive throughout this book cannot be conveyed by any brief summary. In a practical sense, Kennedy reads elegy extremely well; his insights into particular passages and into the discourse of elegy as a whole are illuminating and important." Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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    Product details

    January 1993
    Paperback
    9780521407670
    120 pages
    205 × 129 × 10 mm
    0.255kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Representation and the rhetoric of reality
    • 2. Getting down to essentials
    • 3. Love's figures and tropes
    • 4. A lover's discourse
    • 5. An irregular in love's army: the problems of identification
    • Footnotes
    • Bibliography.
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    • Duncan F. Kennedy