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Powerplay in Tibullus

Powerplay in Tibullus

Powerplay in Tibullus

Reading Elegies Book One
Parshia Lee-Stecum, University of Melbourne
October 1998
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    This study, first published in 1998, explores the subtle, many-faceted interplay of power in Tibullus' first book of elegies. A series of power relationships are created by the text (lover and beloved, poet and patron) and the processes through which power of various sorts can be exercised are brought to the foreground. Such power-play within the text of Tibullus I has ramifications well beyond the erotic sphere. Gender categories, rural life, religion, militia, patronage are among the areas subsumed within and determined by the operation of power dynamics in this consistently underrated Augustan text. As secure meaning becomes elusive, the reader is also drawn into this nexus of power-play. Taking a linear reading of Book One as its basis, this study uncovers the shifting, unstable ground of Tibullan elegy. The result is a picture of the poet and text of Book I far removed from the bland, safe and urbane 'Tibullus' of previous criticism.

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    October 1998
    Hardback
    9780521630832
    342 pages
    224 × 146 × 24 mm
    0.515kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Abbreviations
    • Introduction
    • 1. Poem one
    • 2. Poem two
    • 3. Poem three
    • 4. Poem four
    • 5. Poem five
    • 6. Poem six
    • 7. Poem seven
    • 8. Poem eight
    • 9. Poem nine
    • 10. Poem ten
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
    • Indexes.
      Author
    • Parshia Lee-Stecum , University of Melbourne