{"product_id":"subjecting-verses-latin-love-elegy-and-the-emergence-of-the-real-9780691096742","title":"Subjecting Verses  Latin Love Elegy and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This work offers a panoramic analysis of a major literary genre, important for historic as well as aesthetic reasons, and of the scholarship produced on it over the past century. It applies a range of sophisticated contemporary theoretical perspectives to illuminate the genre as a whole and specific texts within it. Its close readings abound with new insights.\"\u003cb\u003e—Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix  CHAPTER ONE  Toward a New History of Genre:Elegy and the Real 1  CHAPTER TWO  The Catullan Sublime,Elegy, and the Emergence of the Real 31  CHAPTER THREE  Cynthia as Symptom: Propertius, Gallus, and the Boys 60  CHAPTER FOUR  \"He Do the Police in Different Voices\": The Tibullan Dream Text 95  CHAPTER FIVE  Why Propertius Is a Woman 130  CHAPTER SIX  Deconstructing the Vir: Lawand the Other in the Amores 160  CHAPTER SEVEN  Displacing the Subject, Saving the Text 184  CHAPTER EIGHT  Between the Two Deaths: Technologies of the Self in Ovid's Exilic Poetry 210  NOTES 237  BIBLIOGRAPHY 277  INDEX LOCORUM 303  GENERAL INDEX 307","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359104893271,"sku":"9780691096742","price":63.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691096742.jpg?v=1754123603","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/subjecting-verses-latin-love-elegy-and-the-emergence-of-the-real-9780691096742","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}