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Learned Girls and Male Persuasion

Sharon Lynn James

2003

Overview

This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed-thedocta puella,or learned girl, the poet's beloved. By interpreting the poetry not, as has always been done, from the stance of the elite male writers-as plaint and confession-but rather from the viewpoint of the women-thus as persuasion and attempted manipulation-James reveals strategies and substance that no one has listened for before.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: acanthis / amator / amatoria / amores / Ancient & Classical / ancient rome / augustus / beloved / Books and reading / Books and reading -- Rome / catullus / classics / corinna / courtesan / cynthia / dipsas / docta puella / dominae / elegiac love / Elegiac poetry, Latin / Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism / feminism / feminist theory / gender / gender studies / gender theory / History and criticism / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical / literary theory / love / love elegy / love poetry / Love poetry, Latin / Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism / male authors / Man-woman relationships in literature / nonfiction / ovid / Persuasion (Rhetoric) / poetics / poetry / POETRY / General / propertius / roman elegy / roman empire / roman literature / romance / Rome / seduction / Sex role in literature / sexual morality / sexuality / tibullus / woman as subject / Women / Women -- Books and reading -- Rome / Women and literature / Women and literature -- Rome / Women in literature
• ISBN: 0520233816, 9780520233812, 9780520928664, 0520928660